We would lay bets: "What's he going to do now?

You have to start laying bets on other, less familiar materials.

He wore no gold band, which could mean nothing, but she would lay bets on him being single.

If this were a movie, you could lay bets on when the camera would cut to a pumping oil derrick.

The scientists and engineers were laying bets that I wouldn't pass.

Fish lay $5 bets against Springer, who loses four of five.

On any given occasion, you could lay bets that everyone in the household would have a different preference.

That really got the local boys to laying bets.

All those who had laid bets, for or against him, revived their interest.

But now he can lay $10,000 bets on a whim.