"bet the farm" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly nothing more than a case of real estate as wager stakes, but also plausibly because farmers cannot avoid gambling and the stakes are financial ruin: they must make many decisions (such as which crops to plant each year, and how to manage livestock), and outside factors such as weather or changing commodity markets can dash their hopes. Thus, when making a decision they must ask themselves whether they are confident enough to bet the farm as the wager stakes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bets the farm",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betting the farm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bet the farm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bet the farm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "2": "*",
        "3": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "bet the farm (third-person singular simple present bets the farm, present participle betting the farm, simple past and past participle bet the farm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'd be surprised if those two are still dating come Christmas, but I'm not betting the farm on a breakup just yet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London",
          "text": "Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "certain",
          "certain"
        ],
        [
          "doubt",
          "doubt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a substantial wager or risk."
      ],
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "buy the farm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "give away the store"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "play with house money"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "bet one's bottom dollar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "bet one's boots"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "bet the ranch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "bet the house"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-au-bet_the_farm.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bet the farm"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly nothing more than a case of real estate as wager stakes, but also plausibly because farmers cannot avoid gambling and the stakes are financial ruin: they must make many decisions (such as which crops to plant each year, and how to manage livestock), and outside factors such as weather or changing commodity markets can dash their hopes. Thus, when making a decision they must ask themselves whether they are confident enough to bet the farm as the wager stakes.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bets the farm",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betting the farm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bet the farm",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bet the farm",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "3": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "bet the farm (third-person singular simple present bets the farm, present participle betting the farm, simple past and past participle bet the farm)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "buy the farm"
    },
    {
      "word": "give away the store"
    },
    {
      "word": "play with house money"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'd be surprised if those two are still dating come Christmas, but I'm not betting the farm on a breakup just yet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London",
          "text": "Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "certain",
          "certain"
        ],
        [
          "doubt",
          "doubt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make a substantial wager or risk."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bet the farm.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/86/En-au-bet_the_farm.ogg/En-au-bet_the_farm.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-au-bet_the_farm.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bet one's bottom dollar"
    },
    {
      "word": "bet one's boots"
    },
    {
      "word": "bet the ranch"
    },
    {
      "word": "bet the house"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bet the farm"
}