Usenet Posted 23 years ago
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'Prohibitive favorite' - fills a BrE lacuna?
In AmE, the meaning of 'prohibitive favorite', as I understand it, is a horse which is at such short odds (clearly, well beyond being merely odds-on) as to make betting on it unappealing to punters.
Is that right? And is there a BrE expression that covers precisely the same ground? (I'm no betting man: but I'm not aware that there is such an BLOCKED EXPRESSION
Is that right? And is there a BrE expression that covers precisely the same ground? (I'm no betting man: but I'm not aware that there is such an BLOCKED EXPRESSION
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[/nq] To punters? Hardly! No wise bettor should put money on an odds-on favorite, as they still lose with alarming frequency, often winding up out of the money entirely.
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[nq:1]In AmE, the meaning of 'prohibitive favorite', as I understand it, is a horse which is at such short odds (clearly, well beyond being merely odds-on) as to make betting on it unappealing to punters.[/nq]
To punters? Hardly! No wise bettor should put money on an odds-on favorite, as they still lose with alarming frequency, often winding up out of the money entirely. Putting up large sums
To punters? Hardly! No wise bettor should put money on an odds-on favorite, as they still lose with alarming frequency, often winding up out of the money entirely. Putting up large sums
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