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[bet one's boots] or [bet one's bottom dollar] or [bet one's shirt]  {v. phr.},  {informal}

1. To bet all you have.

This horse will win. I would bet my bottom dollar on it.

Jim said he would bet his boots that he would pass the examination.

2.  […]

[bet on the wrong horse]  {v. phr.},  {informal}

To base your plans on a wrong guess about the result of something; misread the future; misjudge a coming event.

* /To count on the small family farm as an important thing in the American future now looks  […]

[better]

See:

[ALL BETTER],

[DISCRETION IS THE BETTER PART OF VALOR],

[FOR BETTER OR WORSE],

[FOR THE BETTER],

[GET THE BETTER OF],

[GO SOMEBODY ONE BETTER],

[HAD BETTER],

[HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE] or [HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NO  […]

[better half]  {n.},  {informal}

One's marriage partner (mostly said by men about their wives.)

[better late than never]

It is better to come or do something late than never.

The firemen didn't arrive at the house until it was half burned, but it was better late than never.

* /Grandfather is learning to drive a car. "Better late than never,"  […]

[better than]  {prep. phr.}

More than; greater than; at a greater rate than.

The car was doing better than eighty miles an hour.

[between]

See: [BETWIXT AND BETWEEN], [COME BETWEEN], [PEW AND FAR BETWEEN].

[between a rock and a hard place]

See: [BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA].

[between life and death]  {adv. phr.}

In danger of dying or being killed; with life or death possible.

He held on to the mountainside between life and death while his friends went to get help.

* /The little sick girl lay all night between life and  […]

[between the devil and the deep blue sea] or  {literary} [between two fires] or [between a rock and a hard place]  {adv. phr.}

Between two dangers or difficulties, not knowing what to do.

* /The pirates had to fight and be killed or give up and be  […]