Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s comics version of City of Glass, a 1985 novel by Paul Auster, is an amazing adaptation of an unfilmable novel. Tim and Kumar assess the herculean task of adapting it, in probably the only medium capable of doing so: comics!
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Bet your bottom dollar
Meaning
Bet your last coin.
Origin
Unsurprisingly, this in an American phrase. First cited in the La Crosse Independent Republican, September 1856:
“I’m goin’ to vote for you [James Polk] – you can bet your bottom dollar on that!”
i forgot to put the link for the phrase. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/62100.html