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16 Οκτ 2024 · The expression originated in the mid-1800s, and it essentially means you’d be willing to bet dollars against donuts that something will occur, since dollars are (or were at the time) much more valuable than donuts.
‘Dollars to doughnuts’ is a pseudo betting term, pseudo in that it didn’t originate with actual betting involving doughnuts, but just as a pleasant-sounding alliterative phrase which indicated short odds – dollars are valuable but doughnuts aren’t.
14 Ιουλ 2018 · To understand "dollars to doughnuts" you have to realize that, when the phrase was coined, a dollar was worth considerably more than a doughnut; hence, a person who was willing to bet a certain number of dollars against an equal number of doughnuts would be giving heavy odds.
22 Ιουν 2015 · The alternate spelling “donut” is said to trace its roots to 1870 and “Josh Billings,” although after doing a review of the 1870-1879 edition of Josh Billings’ Old Farmer’s Almanac, it appears to only reference doughnuts (and, incidentally refers to them as “greasy,” but in a good way).
15 Μαΐ 2024 · The phrase (I’ll bet) dollars to doughnuts is an Americanism dating to the late nineteenth century, referring to the stakes of an imagined wager on a sure thing.
7 Μαρ 2011 · Dollars to Doughnuts: The Food Subsidy Puzzle. March 6, 2011. Share full article. To the Editor: In “ Don’t End Agricultural Subsidies. Fix Them. ” (column, March 2), Mark Bittman says that...
Origin of “Dollars To Donuts”. The phrase “dollars to donuts” is stated to have appeared first as “dollar to buttons” and even with cobwebs in Boss Book of G. W. Peck way back in 1884. Later, the newspaper, the Boston Herald, twisted it in 1904The phrase might have originated in the mid 19th century USA. The earliest citation is ...
