The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odds \Odds\ ([o^]dz), n. sing. & pl. [See Odd, a.]
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Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. The odds are often expressed by a ratio; as, the odds are three to one that he will win, i. e. he will win three times out of four ``Pre["e]minent by so much odds.''
--Milton. ``The fearful odds of that unequal fray.''
--Trench.The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
--Shak.There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them.
--Swift.All the odds between them has been the different scope . . . given to their understandings to range in.
--Locke.Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie.
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Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.
Set them into confounding odds.
--Shak.I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds.
--Shak.At odds, in dispute; at variance. ``These squires at odds did fall.''
--Spenser. ``He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds.''
--Shak.It is odds, it is probable; same as odds are, but no longer used. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.odds are it is probable; as, odds are he will win the gold medal.
Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. ``My brain is filled . . . with all kinds of odds and ends.''
--W. Irving.slim odds low odds; poor chances; as, there are slim odds he will win any medal.
Wikipedia
"Odds Are" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies. It is the second single from their 2013 album, Grinning Streak. It was released as a promotional single on July 14, 2013. The song is also the theme song for the television show Working the Engels.
Usage examples of "odds are".
The odds are pretty good they'll figure out it's not Stilty-produced.
But what most of the public DOESN'T know is that not only are the Star Kingdom and its Allies badly outnumbered by the Republic's new fleet, but that the odds are going to get steadily worse.
At the university, odds are that you will get one every two years.
The odds are against their finding us, but Lady Harrington intends to make certain they don't.
The odds are against their finding us, but Lady Harrington intends to make certain they don’.
And if we do pick out a million different genetic patterns with potential for telepathy, we then have to ask what the odds are that someone now alive will have such a gene pattern, or anything near it.
So odds are we'd be safer here than anywhere else we can afford to get to, even if Mr.