Bet

Definition

bet /bet/ v ( -tt-; pt, pp bet or betted ) ~ (sth) (on/against sth) ေလာင္းကစားသည္။ အေလာင္းအစားလုပ္သည္။ I don't approve of betting. ❍ He spends all his money betting on horses. ❍ ‘He'll be back,’ ‘I wouldn't bet on it (ie It is rather unlikely). ’ ❍ She bet me $20 that I wouldn't be able to give up smoking. See also BETTING n ၁။ (က) အေလာင္းအစား။ make a bet ❍ have an each-way bet on the Derby ❍ win/lose a bet ❍ ‘Liverpool are bound to win. ’ ‘Do you want a bet? (ie I disagree with you). ’ (ခ) ေလာင္းေၾကး။ place/put a bet on a horse ❍ I hear you're taking bets on whether she'll agree to marry him. ❍ People felt that investing in property was a good/sure/safe bet. ၂။ ( infml ) ႐ုတ္တရက္ေပၚေသာ အေတြး။ My bet is they've been held up in the traffic. ❍ That seems like a fair bet. ❏ bet one's bottom dollar (on sth / that…) [ IDM ] ( infml ) လံုးဝက်ိန္းေသသည္။ You can bet your bottom dollar he won't have waited for us. ❏ I bet (that) … [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဧကန္ေျပာရဲတယ္။ I bet he arrives late—he always does. ❏ you bet [ IDM ] ( infml ) မင္း စိတ္သာခ်။ ‘Are you going to the match?’ ‘You bet (I am)!’

Examples

1. [bet on] : Thousands of people bet on the result of the match.
2. [bet something on something] : I bet £10 on each of the horses.
3. [bet (someone) that] : He bet me £20 that I couldn’t keep quiet for ten minutes.