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In spite of seeming very unlikely, as in Against all odds we had a snowstorm in early May , or Against all odds the slower team won . This transfer of a betting term to general usage occurred about 1900.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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