lay odds

You can lay odds that there will be at least one docudrama, probably to be directed by Jay Roach, focusing on the incompetent federal response.

Galston, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said: “I would lay odds on it being an African American, and possibly an African American woman.”

A betting man might lay odds that King will prevail in a primary as a visionary zealot who prepared the way for our fearless and feckless leader Trump.

Basically, our goal is to make forecasts, to handicap the race, and to lay odds.

You'll just have to lay odds in every case, but one: