lay odds

Example Sentences

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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

And I'll lay odds we can feel the heat o' the sun in the east and west enough to make a fair guess at the course.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan