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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
CornÉ	kawr-NAY	Dutch
Ilarion	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Karrie	KER-ee, KAR-ee	English
Vygantas	-	Lithuanian
Ardal	AHR-dahl	Irish
Scout	SKOWT	English (Rare)