Meaning of take a flutter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To flutter for a short period of time.
2. To place a small bet.
   Canada, UK
3. To support a risky option.
   Canada, UK

Examples

“Jenny's pulse took a flutter at the word 'newspaper' now knowing that she was guilty.”

““Now, that's a good question, and I'm glad to answer it,” Potter said. “The fact is that it occurred to me there might be a pigeon somewhere round here that was thinking of taking a flutter.”

“Hughes takes a flutter on the nearest six, nickel bets on thirty-one to thirty-six.”

“Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.”

“I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.”

“You'd hardly believe how difficult it was to interest the public and make them take a flutter on the old boy.”

“In the next general election in 2007 the Liberals hung on to only a couple of these ridings: most of their voters took a flutter with the ADQ.”

“In time Getz took up the slack left by the dearth of commercial presenters and took a flutter on big-name artists in mid-career, often in the Orpheum.”

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