Dictionary entry

Odds-on

Pronunciation: /ɒdzˈɒn/

Pronunciation

/ɒdzˈɒn/

Myanmar Meaning

ကျရှုံးမှုထက် အောင်မြင်မှုက ပို၍ အလားအလာရှိသော အခြေအနေ။ ပုံမှန်ထက်ပို၍ ကောင်းသော အလားအလာရှိသော။

Definition

odds /ɒdz / n [pl] ၁။ အလားအလာ။ အေျခအေနေပးမႈ။ The odds are in your favour (ie You are likely to succeed). ❍ The odds are (heavily) against him (ie He is unlikely to succeed). ❍ The odds are that (ie It is probable that) she'll win. ၂။ တစ္ဖက္စီးနင္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ အေလးသာမႈ။ a victory in the face of hopeless/overwhelming odds ❍ Against all the odds she achieved her dream of becoming a ballerina. ၃။ ႏွစ္ေလးတစ္ေလး စသည္ အေက်ာေပးျခင္း။ The horse was running at odds of ten to one. ❍ The odds are five to one on the defending champion. ❍ I'll lay odds of (ie bet) three to one that he'll get the job. ❏ be at odds (with sb) (over/on sth) [ IDM ] သေဘာ ကြဲလြဲသည္။ He's always at odds with his father over politics. ❏ it makes no odds [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) အေၾကာင္းမဟုတ္။ မထူးပါဘူး။ အေရးမႀကီးပါဘူး။ ကိစၥမရိွ။ It makes no odds to me whether you go or stay. ❏ odds and ends n ( infml ) တိုလီမိုလီ။ ျဗဳတ္စဗ်င္းေတာင္း။ ဗူလိနတ္စ။ He's moved most of his stuff—there are just a few odds and ends left. Compare ODDMENT ❏ odds-on adj သတင္းေျပးေနေသာ။ ေသခ်ာသေလာက္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ the odds-on favourite ❍ It's odds-on that he'll be late. ❏ over the odds [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) သာသာထိုးထိုး။ The firm pays over the odds in order to keep its staff.

Examples

  1. [the odds of doing something] : The odds of getting hit by a falling satellite are very small.
  2. [(the) odds are (that)] : The odds are they won’t succeed.
  3. [the odds are in favour of something/(stacked) against something] : The odds were always in favour of a South African victory.
  4. [the odds are in someone’s favour/(stacked) against someone] : The odds were stacked against him
  5. but he never gave up.
  6. [What are the odds...?] : What are the odds Jim will show up this time?
  7. I didn’t bet on the horse because I didn’t like the odds.
  8. [give/lay/offer (someone) odds of something] : They’re giving odds of 5–1 against a knockout in the first round.
  9. Left alone
  10. they were fighting against overwhelming odds.
  11. [against all (the) odds] : Against all the odds
  12. we won our case on appeal.