the house always wins
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
proverb
In a casino, all gambling is designed so that the house (i.e. the casino owners) will always net a profit, regardless of the successes of individual patrons.
Example Sentences
- "Don't go to a casino. All their games are designed to make you lose more money than you earn, so that the house always wins."
- "You're surprised by the high prices in the prison commissary? I'm not — the house always wins, after all."
- "The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe."
- "You know what they say about death and taxes. The house always wins."
- "... thermodynamics has its way. The end may be a long time coming, but come it must: the odds cannot be beaten. Sooner or later, the timelessness of equilibrium sets in. In the gambling casino of nature, the house always wins."