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poor bet
noun as in dark horse
Example Sentences
California has been a particularly poor bet for blue-collar professions, such as manufacturing, the traditional path to upward mobility for minorities and non-college educated people.
If he is right — and there is reason to worry he is — Western policies and provisions that maintain the status quo are a poor bet.
Writing off Russia, they say, is a poor bet.
And it’s a poor bet to suppose that politicians will embrace a costlier means of building new roads — one that would hit taxpayers’ wallets hard — when a cheaper option is available.
But Trump is making a pretty poor bet, if he thinks that the people who are eager to silence women, such as him, outnumber those who welcome this new era when women are more free to speak out.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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