See a bob each way on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "A phrase from gambling. See bob (“shilling”) and the gambling sense at each way.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "noun" }, "expansion": "a bob each way", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "six of one, half a dozen of the other" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Australian English", "British English", "English colloquialisms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "New Zealand English", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1965, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives, page 577:", "text": "Of course the member for St. Albans says, both. He likes to have a bob each way, which is in keeping with the statement he made the other day in this debate.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A situation of hedging one's bets, refusing to commit to either side of a question." ], "links": [ [ "hedging one's bets", "hedge one's bets" ], [ "commit", "commit" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial, UK, Australia, New Zealand) A situation of hedging one's bets, refusing to commit to either side of a question." ], "tags": [ "Australia", "New-Zealand", "UK", "colloquial" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "two bob each way" } ], "word": "a bob each way" }
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