bottom dollar

Example Sentences

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“Even if, God forbid, Treasury misses a payment, you can bet your bottom dollar that Congress will quickly pay its bills,” Rupkey said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

“I’ll bet my bottom dollar somebody’s opened the gates and left them open.”

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

“And I would say based on the performance of the last year, his performance is in the top quartile. So, we are paying bottom dollar for top performance. I think we’re getting a good deal.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2021

As they become experts at predicting, and in turn, influencing human behavior, you can bet your bottom dollar they’ll apply that expertise in unsavory ways.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2019

The result of this pumping process must have been satisfactory: for when we parted with him, the fakir declared he was "go'n' try't on thar, next winter, 'f I bust me bottom dollar!"

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold