bet the ranch

Example Sentences

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“I would bet the ranch that they wouldn’t,” Soboroff said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021

I’d bet the ranch, though, that your feelings about your parents are more complicated than you suggest, that it’s not just their stinginess with money that pained—and still pains—you.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2019

Effectively, managers are paid to bet the ranch in the hope of becoming the next Bill Gates, knowing if the present cycle doesn’t pan out, the next one may.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2018

I would bet the ranch that Hillary Clinton read Beinart’s book.

From Salon • May 15, 2016

If there’s any possible way that something can go wrong, you can bet the ranch that it will.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac