the odds are in your favor
the ODDZ are in yor FAY-ver
ðə ɒdz ɑːr ɪn jɔːr ˈfeɪvərListen
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an idiom meaning that circumstances, probability, or structural factors are positioned to support your success, drawing on the vocabulary of gambling where favorable odds indicate a high likelihood of winning your bet; when the odds are in your favor you begin an undertaking with advantages — experience, resources, institutional support, situational alignment — that make a positive outcome statistically more likely than a negative one; the phrase carries a note of reassurance and encouragement without promising certainty, acknowledging that probability is not destiny; it entered wider cultural consciousness through its use in dystopian fiction as an ironic phrase uttered by power structures that have rigged outcomes in their own favor while claiming to offer fair chances to the disadvantaged
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