oddman

Chinese translation: 有些赌徒,他们发起疯来会这才赢了你头上的帽子,接着又拿你的头发来赌单双。

08:58 Mar 12, 2004
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English term or phrase: oddman
Big gamblers hot to wager, some in such a fever they would win the hat off your head and then oddman for your hair.
panyuan
Chinese translation:有些赌徒,他们发起疯来会这才赢了你头上的帽子,接着又拿你的头发来赌单双。
Explanation:
odd man : a player (as in the game of odd man wins) whose coin shows a face different from two other coins tossed or matched(Merriam-Wesbster 3rd New International)
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Last Hermit
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4 +1有些赌徒,他们发起疯来会这才赢了你头上的帽子,接着又拿你的头发来赌单双。
Last Hermit
4窰甴
shcheong
4设赌局的人
Edward LIU
1must be a gambling term - like paper/scissors/stone perhaps
chica nueva


  

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窰甴


Explanation:
I believe there is a typoerror here.
It may be oddment instead of oddman.
oddment=something leftover窰甴


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shcheong
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设赌局的人


Explanation:
设赌局的人

Edward LIU
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must be a gambling term - like paper/scissors/stone perhaps


Explanation:
must be a gambling term - like paper/scissors/stone perhaps

'odd man out'(in children's games)

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有些赌徒,他们发起疯来会这才赢了你头上的帽子,接着又拿你的头发来赌单双。


Explanation:
odd man : a player (as in the game of odd man wins) whose coin shows a face different from two other coins tossed or matched(Merriam-Wesbster 3rd New International)

Last Hermit
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