bet your bottom dollar



bet your bottom dollar

Risk your all your assets. “Bottom dollar” was the last amount of money in a gambling game stake. If you lost it, you were flat-out broke. Therefore, someone who said that you could bet your bottom dollar on something was telling you that it was a certainty. And sometimes it was.
See also: bet, bottom, dollar

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
MillicentMIL-ə-səntEnglish
Cystennin-Welsh
LÉOnne-French
PeonyPEE-ə-neeEnglish (Rare)
GermÁN-Spanish
ThomTAHMEnglish