Dollars to Donuts
Shut up a Second
Sanspants Radio
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sance Pants Radio, Australia's least coherent podcast network. |
| 0:07.2 | Hey everybody and welcome to this week's episode of Shut Up a Second. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Jackson Bailey. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Cass. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Adam. |
| 0:11.8 | And today's topic is dollars to donuts. |
| 0:17.7 | Where do you reckon that phrase came from? |
| 0:23.6 | Is it a transaction? |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.1 | It was a doughnuts? |
| 0:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | It's a specifically Australian expression because the classic donut hole is the size of a $1 |
| 0:31.0 | coin. |
| 0:31.7 | Is that true? |
| 0:32.5 | No! |
| 0:33.3 | Oh man, but it could have fucking got you. |
| 0:35.6 | It's apparently a Northex American expression. So definitely. Damn it, damn it, I just love it because it's like, I bet you dollars to donuts is where it comes in. What? Why? What does that mean? Tell me more. You have to explain. Dollars to donuts used to emphasize one certainty. That's all that says. That helps us not at all. because the other night, I was talking to my partner and I was like, yeah, man. |
| 0:57.1 | I was like, dollars to donuts, this is going to be the case. And she was like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, as in I bet you. And then she was like, I don't know what you're saying. And then I realized that that sentence is meaningless. Can I hit you up with some information from the grammarist? |
| 1:09.8 | I would love you to. |
| 1:10.8 | Yes. |
| 1:11.3 | So classic friend of the show, the grammarist, says, |
| 1:14.3 | Dollars to. Yes. |
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