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
Grizel-Scottish
Agnesi['ægnisi]
RidleyRID-leeEnglish (Rare)
ClemenceKLEM-əntsEnglish
Narcisse-French
ShilohSHIE-lo (English)Biblical