Bet
Post
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- In Going Postal, the Post Office staff put all their savings into a bet on Moist von Lipwig outracing the semaphore.
Source: Side Bet - At the end of Back to the Future Part II, the man who hands Marty the letter that Doc wrote in 1885 mentions that the post office had a bet as to whether Marty would actually show up on the date specified in the letter.
Source: Side Bet - After looking into the background of both, Butcher started writing, but was unable to post the resulting story to win the bet because he thought it was good enough to publish (and get paid for).
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Post and Bet. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bet/post
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Post or Bet. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bet/post.
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