don't bet on it
(also I wouldn't bet on it) informalDefinition
› used to tell someone that you think something is unlikely to be true or to happen: "Do you think they'll give me back the money they owe me?" "I wouldn't bet on it."UncertaintyHesitatingAchievable
(Definition of don't bet on it from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- blurred adjective
- circumstantial adjective
- conflicted adjective
- debatable adjective
- definite maybe noun
- dodgy adjective (NOT RELIABLE)
- fuzzy adjective (NOT CLEAR)
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind of idiom
- kinda adverb
- knife edge noun
- knife-edge adjective (UNCERTAIN)
- sputter verb (ACTIVITY)
- tenuous adjective
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- touch-and-go adjective
- uncertain adjective
- uncertainty noun
- unclear adjective
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