On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, skzb wrote: > > #It's actually more often the other way around: trying to represent that you > #have the best possible hand (technically called "the nuts") by betting > #strongly into the guy who actually has it. I have learned that, in the > #long-run, this is not a money-making venture. > > "Betting into" = "betting against"? We say "spitting into the wind", not "against", don't we? While I'm failing to live up to my Grammar God rating (see http://quizilla.com/users/BaalObsidian/quizzes/How%20grammatically%20sound%20are%20you%3F/ ) - last night I had to break it to some otherwise very fluent friends that "a colleague of us" isn't English. Why is "ours" necessary here?