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bet the ranch

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bet the ranch
to risk everything you have because you are certain of success. The program was in trouble, and our feeling was, why bet the ranch on it? She's expecting further gains, but she wouldn't bet the ranch.
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``I don't think I would've bet the ranch on 14-0,'' said La Canada coach Tom Hofman, whose team built an 18-7 lead over Valley Christian (13-3) at the end of the first quarter and never led by fewer than seven the rest of the way.
BOYS' BASKETBALL: MALIK LIFTS LA CANADA TO VICTORY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
I bet the ranch and all the cows on it," Robertson told Forbes magazine in 2003.
Energy's future: the world need never run out of energy. In fact, ... by Behreandt, Dennis / The New American
We all know idiots who have literally bet the ranch on a happy outcome and won--much to our chagrin.
Paying the penalty for skepticism by Phipps, John / Top Producer
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