"odds against" = "odds of"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Here's another reversal, one which I believe I've heard before on TV news.

In _Teach Yourself the Second World War_ (London: Hodder Arnold, 2004), p. 22, historian Alan Farmer writes of the German invasion of 1939:

"The odds against Poland's survival were slim."

JL

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