bet the house

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bet the house (third-person singular simple present bets the house, present participle betting the house, simple past and past participle bet the house)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of bet the farm
    • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎[1], →ISSN:
      Such thinking runs counter to the conventional wisdom in the hedge-fund industry, which is that the only way to score big is to bet the house.
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