to bet on
96
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /bɛt ɑn/
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- My bookie is the right place to bet on football every weekend.
- bet on a horse
To save their business, they're betting on malls.
- To save their business, they're betting on malls.
- And you can only bet on football right now.
- And I'm not scared to bet the farm on that gut feel, right?
- He's bold, he takes risks, he bets on people, and he perseveres.
- I couldn't afford not to bet on it in case it won.
- So I was willing to bet, bet on myself and bet on the future.
- And so people bet on Elon and the companies.
- Well, are you going to bet on truth or falsehood?
- Yeah, we don't know if I would bet on it either way.
- But if you were to force to bet all your money on one of these, would you?
- I was, I bet on the Portland game the other night.
- You joke, But how Ryan Garcia did the boxer, he bet on himself and he won.
- For example, I think the best sports alive bet on is NBA, right?
Examples
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Before the race, she decided to bet on the horse with the best odds.
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So I was willing to bet, bet on myself and bet on the future.
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And you can only bet on football right now.
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I would bet on it.
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You can bet on another race if you care to.
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You can bet on that.
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Listen, I want to bet on the game this Friday.
Fiction book (1998) -
You bet on Joy Boy.
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My bookie is the place to bet on football every weekend.
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Bet on me.
Synonyms
568
1.5
To risk money on the result of an event
91
3.3
To do something risky hoping for a good result
64
4.0
To take a risk hoping for a good result
56
5.3
To risk money or something valuable on the result of an event
36
3.8
Do something risky hoping to do well
20
4.4
To risk money on the result of a game or event
7
4.2
To do something risky hoping to get a good result
4
7.6
To bet money on the result of a sports event
Antonyms
How Certain
700
1.8
96
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'bet' (to wager) plus the preposition 'on' indicating the target or choice — a standard verb+preposition composition that signals placing a wager or backing something. This construction is cross-linguistically common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Bet on may come from the image of putting money down on a horse or a game's result, where you place a bet on the thing you think will win. So, bet on now means 'to risk money or something valuable predicting a result or supporting someone's success'.