Sentence examples for slashing the odds from inspiring English sources

Bookmakers fear a six-figure payout after slashing the odds on the favourite for today's Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Odds issued by Betfair have slashed the odds of Qatar being stripped of the tournament to 9/4 from 4/1.

5 The bookies watched with interest Bookmakers have slashed the odds on England regaining the Ashes.

Warburton will have caught the eye of other clubs this season and bookmakers slashed the odds on the 52-year-old joining Queen's Park Rangers.

Ladbrokes has slashed the odds of a second election this year from 10-1 in October to 4-1 today, which a bookie spokesman claimed was still a "massive value bet".

Should Liverpool win, Paddy Power have suggested they could slash the odds on Benítez's side winning the title to as little as 10-1.

After taking a flurry of bets, it slashed the odds to 100 to one and then two to one in just a few weeks before closing the book.

Online punters slashed the odds that Barack Obama would be re-elected to a little over 50%.As recently as February payroll growth was running at 250,000 a month.

To others, Elbow will seem unadventurous - particularly to the person who bet so much money on Burial that the bookies had to slash the odds, making the reticent south London dubstep auteur the most leftfield bookies' favourite ever.

On the eve of tonight's Nationwide Mercury Prize awards ceremony, bookies William Hill slashed the odds on Burial taking home the crown – citing a major bet, "one of the biggest gambles in the history of the [award]".

The average price for a litre of petrol is now 111p, according to government data, and the bookmaker Ladbrokes has slashed the odds on it falling below the £1 mark before the month is out.