To desire no advantage or favour.

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1806.  

        No animal of his peerless power withstood,
He reigned the monarch of the Lybian wood;
Sole sovereign of the plain—no odds he begs
Of any beast that walks upon four legs.
Verses entitled ‘The Lion and the Tarapin,’ Balt. Ev. Post, March 5, p. 2/2: from The Virginia Gazette.    

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1834.  See VARMINT.

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1857.  I ask no odds of them, no more than I do of the dirt I walk on; for if it was not there I could not walk upon it.—H. C. Kimball at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, July 12: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 32.

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1857.  I swore in Nauvoo, when my enemies were looking me in the face, that I would send them to hell across lots, if they meddled with me; and I ask no more odds of all hell to-day.—Brigham Young, July 26: id., p. 78.

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1857.  I ask no odds of the wicked, the best way they can fix it.—The same, Aug. 2: id., p. 99.

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