bet the ranch

But I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it.

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

“You don’t want to bet the ranch on these types of businesses which are still loss-making.”

I’d bet the ranch that this “idea” of hers is entirely a rationalization for her fury that her ex-husband has found happiness with someone else, and that her children and grandchildren have a relationship with that person.

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.