📚 verb • entry_id 54433
double down
Meanings (ES + gloss)
doblar la apuesta • duplicar la apuesta
To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.
He'd bet three thousand and double down to six thousand, all of it hanging on the turn of the next card.
acrecentarse • extremarse • redoblarse • reduplicar
To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it.
Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all want to get out of Iraq. They all want to double down in Afghanistan.
While 007 has been on extended annual leave as a result of Daniel Craig’s cold feet, Taron Egerton’s thoroughly less urbane secret agent Eggsy Unwin has managed to thoroughly outdo…
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