dollars to buttons
Example Sentences
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I'll bet dollars to buttons there never was a ship unloaded any quicker than we've unloaded this one.
From The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Horne, Diantha W.
"It's dollars to buttons, though, that he doesn't go up to the fire where the boys are."
From Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds by Fletcher, Archibald Lee
The boy knows where the bullhead congregates, and when he throws in his hook it is dollars to buttons that “in the near future” he will get a bite.
From Peck's Compendium of Fun by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
