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
Daliborka-Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Mikaylamə-KAY-ləEnglish (Modern)
Gamalielgə-MAY-lee-əl (English)Biblical
Cyrielle-French
Nick[nik]
Temel-Turkish