Two to one is odds at foot-ball. [ Proverb ]

Here if you beat a bush, its odds but you start a thief. [ Proverb ]

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride. [ Swift ]

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]