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what are the odds

what are the odds phrase: used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.

Phrase

what are the odds

  1. (idiomatic, rhetoric) Used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.

Questions about what are the odds

What does what are the odds mean?
What are the odds means used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.
What part of speech is what are the odds?
What are the odds is a phrase.

Words near what are the odds in the dictionary

  1. what about the children
  2. what am I bid
  3. what am I looking at
  4. what am I, chopped liver
  5. what are friends for
  6. what are the odds
  7. what are you doing
  8. what are you like
  9. what are you looking at
  10. what are you smoking
  11. what are you waiting for

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