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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 bet the farm 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.
See also: bet, ranch
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If that makes the Dallas businessman sound down and out, don't bet the ranch he'll stay down.
2008 success achiever of the year T. Boone Pickens by Vinnedge, Mary / Success
Armey offering the same kind of predictions about the Obama stimulus plan—and he is treated as a sage rather than a dolt who bet the ranch on his ideology and lost.
The Upside-Down Stimulus Skeptics by Joe Conason / The New York Observer
Byline: MAGUIRE STRICTLY Come Spending's Alistair Darling bet the ranch on cha-chachaing Britain out of recession.
CHANCELLOR DANCES TO A NEW TUNE; THE CREDIT CRISIS BUDGET Spend now, ... by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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