the odds are
(the) odds are (that)
It is very likely or probable that (something is the case or will happen). If you own your own business, odds are that you've had to deal with one of these many frustrations firsthand. I'll try to get there before you've started eating dinner, but the odds are I won't make it before 8 o'clock. You played sports all through childhood? So odds are you had an injury or two along the way, huh?
See also: odds
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the odds ˈare (that...)
(also (it’s) odds-ˈon (that...)) it is very likely that: I don’t think we can come. The odds are that we won’t be able to get a babysitter — not on Christmas Eve. ♢ It was odds-on that they would decide to get married, so no one was surprised.See also: odds
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