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‘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 · Dollars to doughnuts means something that is certain. The phrase dollars to doughnuts is an American idiom that originated in the middle 1800s and is still mostly seen in American English. Can anyone provide more details?
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.
The phrase “dollars to donuts” means certainty or having an assurance about the possibility of something happening. 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.
The origin of the idiom "dollars to doughnuts" is uncertain, but it is believed to have originated in America in the late 19th century. At that time, dollars were a commonly used currency, while doughnuts were a popular treat.
29 Ιουν 2024 · The idiom “dollars to doughnuts” means that something is very likely to happen. It’s a way of saying you’re so sure of an outcome that you would bet money against something much less valuable, like doughnuts.
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).
