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
Domingos	-	Portuguese
SÍThmaith	-	Irish
Eldon	EL-dən	English
Cainan	KAY-nən (English), kay-IE-nən (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Tess	[tes]
Manfried	MAHN-freet	German