hedge one's bets

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hedge one's bets 的定义

  1. Lessen one's chance of loss by counterbalancing it with other bets, investments, or the like. For example, I'm hedging my bets by putting some of my money in bonds in case there's another drop in the stock market. This term transfers hedge, in the sense of “a barrier,” to a means of protection against loss. [Second half of 1600s]

hedge one's bets 近义词

hedge one's bets

等同于 play it safe

更多hedge one's bets例句

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  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  5. The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.