lay odds

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

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2018

Second, I'd lay odds on having fewer than 37,000 annual deaths and many, many more serious injuries if we switch to self-driving cars.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2017

Lexington would lay odds that TV viewers in Detroit and the surrounding state of Michigan will soon know that video well.

From Economist • Mar. 20, 2014

Care to lay odds on either of them?

From Time • Aug. 20, 2012

I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France: I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William