It's Only A Day Away

[rinue]

From context, I know that "bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun" means it is so certain that you could bet every dollar on it, all the way down to the last dollar in the stack.

However, reacting to the phrase alone, I take it to mean the opposite: bet your ugliest dollar, the dollar you value least, because chances are, you're not getting it back.

Ciro argues that both interpretations are wrong, and instead it means "bet your bottom dollar, but in order to get to it, spend the rest of the dollars, thus bringing the power of the free market into effect."

Ciro is of course correct: if we want more sunshine, we have to act as responsible consumers and drive up demand and prices, thus attracting enterprising new sunshine contractors.



Originally, I mistyped "consumers" as "confumers," which I didn't notice until Ciro complimented me on the Shakespearian flavor of my text. I went back and corrected it for readability, but I already miss it. I like the idea of confumers agressively purchasing pre-packaged ire.

Comments

[iridesce-sent.livejournal.com]

Tee hee - I thought, as an Annie-obsessed kid (I still know that Aileen Quinn was the actress who played the titular orphan), that your bottom dollar was the one stored in your back pocket. Y'know, near your bottom.

Bottom dollar.

[bluezybunny.livejournal.com]

I always thought that this saying meant that you can bet all of your money on the sun rising because you're either guaranteed to get it back or, even if the sun doesn't come up that day, the world will freeze over and you won't be alive to worry about your financial loss anyway. Perhaps I'm too much of a realist to see the optimistic or pessemistic sides.

-Bluezy Bunny

Re: Bottom dollar.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Ciro and I giggled about this all through breakfast.

cheers,
Romie