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- verb To
wager everything. - verb idiomatic To try everything possible or do last thing possible in a final attempt.
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- verb risk everything in one big effort
Etymologies
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From Hawaiian Pidgin craps slang, meaning “to wager everything on one roll”: one would be broke, bankrupt if one loses.
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