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Zagreb041 Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

"i beg the difference" or "i bet the difference"

Hello everybody,
can anyone help me.
i've heard in movies phrase "i beg the difference" or "i bet the difference", i'm not sure which one.
As i googled it, i saw that the both terms are used.

are both correct, do they have the same meaning.

thanks.
  

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Hi zagreb041. Welcome to the forum. The true idiom is 'I beg to differ' which means 'I disagree'.

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  • Hi zagreb041.
  • Welcome to the forum.
  • The true idiom is 'I beg to differ' which means 'I disagree'.
  • I beg the difference is, I think, a mistaken form of this.
  • Just because you can find something on google doesn't make it correct - people make a lot of mistakes.
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Hi zagreb041. Welcome to the forum.

The true idiom is 'I beg to differ' which means 'I disagree'.

I beg the difference is, I think, a mistaken form of this. Just because you can find something on google doesn't make it correct - people make a lot of mistakes.

I bet the difference - this makes sense in certain contexts but is not the idiom we are discussing here. It does
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Thanks nona, that was very detailed.
If you think that i'll never use this idiom in my future conversation, i beg to differ...
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But people do say I beg the difference instead of I beg to differ. Probably because they don't know any better... Thanks for sharing!
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