The odds are on the cheaper man.

This elephant, against overwhelming odds, simply gives up hope.

Odds to win the league (via Oddschecker) 1,000 1

Beat the odds in a poker style dice game

The reason is, this isn't how people do odds.

It makes no odds. In fact, in the Northern Hemisphere, we're further from the Sun in summer, as it happens, but it makes no odds, the difference.

Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.

Odds are, you're not going to care in five years.

Those two departments are sometimes at odds with each other.

Odds are I probably know somebody who has made a widget.

Just trying to play the odds. All right, here we go.

And these goals aren't necessarily diametrically opposed, but they are at odds.

And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

And all this against incredible logistical odds, like heat and traffic jams.

If you look at the statistics, the odds are not very favorable to us.

The way people figure odds requires that we first talk a bit about pigs.

Against enormous odds, her small farm grew, creating jobs for nearly 200 rural women.

And then you draw the conclusion the odds of winning the lottery are 100 percent.

Some people are born in hells, and against all odds, they make it to heavens.

President Obama and congressional Republicans have been at odds for most of the year over Zika.

This aversion to social values may seem at odds with the explosion of community service programs.

The humanitarian operation launched in late 2003 has been remarkably effective this year, against overwhelming odds.

Such an approach is at odds with the budgeting process in the United States and elsewhere.

Now the good news is that the odds of it actually passing through this keyhole and hitting us next go around are one in a million, roughly very, very low odds, so I personally am not lying awake at night worrying about this at all.

Nature has learned to compensate with that, and females have multiple clutches of eggs to overcome those odds.

Against all odds, mortality rates are now one third of what they were in the beginning of 2004.

I returned to Singapore and, in 1990, performed Asia's first successful cadaveric liver transplant procedure, but against all odds.

It's an anomaly, it's a place where the system actually is at odds with who we are as people.

There are, in fact, many encouraging examples of how we can achieve results, at times even against the odds.

In the opinion of the source, that is totally at odds with the principle of the presumption of innocence.

It seems to me that the odds are around 60 that real negotiation will not begin until tax rates go up on January 1. And it seems to me that, if gridlock continues into 2013, the odds are 60 that it will tip the US back into recession.

But it shows you Africans, and particularly African women, who against all odds have developed businesses, some of them world class.

He looked at the odds of another world war, of a massive volcanic eruption, even of an asteroid hitting the Earth.

Now, you can see the odds of winning haven't changed, but it's now fantastically easy to imagine who's going to win.

He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.

However, institutional and negotiating capacities require a sustained, comprehensive and long term effort that is at odds with short term operations.

Because I could go on for about two hours with evidence of people's inability to estimate odds and inability to estimate value.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

For instance, if you look at the odds on horses at a racetrack, they predict almost perfectly how likely a horse is to win.

The information provided to the Committee by the complainant is at odds with his own account of the facts to the Swedish immigration authorities.

With respect to such treaties, the French abrogation doctrine is at odds with an otherwise strong trend favouring their continued vitality during armed conflict.

That's three. The odds of me getting all four of these right by random guessing would be one in 10,000 10 to the fourth power.

The fact that all those tickets are owned by one guy changes your decision to play, even though it does nothing whatsoever to the odds.

They will not negotiate a separate peace. They would like nothing better than for America and Europe to be at odds, rather than working together.

Calculating odds would seem to be something rather easy there are six sides to a die, two sides to a coin, 52 cards in a deck.