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to shout the odds

to shout the odds

9.5
Say loudly how likely something is, often about a game
  • idiom
translation icon : proclamar las probabilidades
  • Don't shout the odds without knowing the facts!

Examples

  • During the heated debate, she started to shout the odds about the possible outcomes.

  • He loves to shout the odds whenever his team is playing, even if no one asks for his opinion.

  • Some fans shout the odds before every match, confident in their predictions.

  • The coach always shouts the odds before the game.

  • The coach decided to shout the odds about his team's chances of winning the championship.

  • Before placing his bet, he took a moment to shout the odds for each horse in the race.

  • She loves to shout the odds at the start of the competition to motivate her teammates.

Synonyms

to wager
vsto shout the odds
37 4.7

To say you are sure something will happen as if you had risked money on it

is a loud proclamation of chances or risks
to shout out
vsto shout the odds
13 4.2

Say something loudly to show strong feeling or get attention

focuses on declaring chances or likely outcomes instead

Antonyms

to downplay
59 5.3

Show something as less important or serious than it is

How Forceful

to proclaim
  • Formal
229 5.3
to shout the odds
9.5
to declare
  • Formal
950 3.7
to state
∞ 1.6
to predict
812 3.0
to say
∞ 5.1
to suggest
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

shout the odds infinitive
shouted the odds past
shouted the odds past participle
shouting the odds present participle
shouts the odds third person singular

Morphology

shout + the + odds

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'shout' (to say loudly) and 'odds' (chances or likelihood), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it means to loudly proclaim the chances or likely outcome. The verb + noun phrase construction is compositional and cross-linguistically common, making the phrase predictable rather than idiomatic.

Etymology

Shout the odds comes from betting shops and racetracks, where people selling bets would shout the odds, the numbers that show a bet's chance. So today, to shout the odds means to loudly say your view of the 'chances' or to predict what will happen.