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
But all this is only the one string to our bow—though I tell you I’ve gone into it head-first, as if it was our bottom dollar.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
