"Bet his shirt" nghĩa là gì?

Đăng bởi lovebird21c - 29 Nov, 2016

A gamble on Europe. Photo courtesy Gwydion M. Williams.

'Bet one's shirt' nghĩa là bán cả khố đi mà đánh cuộc (to bet all one has on (a horse, etc)).

Ví dụ

Offie said his father had been a gambler and had bet his shirt on a horse called Theophelus.

He bet his shirt that Conservative MPs were not willing to lose for the sake of the EU.

He followed rather than led; and in this sour atmosphere he bet his shirt on the notoriously fickle vehicle of a referendum, and lost.

The president had bet his shirt on reversing the unemployment curve by the end of the year.

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