nine times out of ten

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   almost every time

   Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but... every once in a while...

In the movies · 1

• Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but... every once in a while...Fight Club1999
• You lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what?The Other Guys2010
• Nine times out of ten, you get the wrong number.One, Two, Three1961

Learn it in full scenes

• Fight Club1999
  • Tyler Holds a Gun on Jack
  • Narrator Cries at Support Groups
  • Narrator and Marla Expose Each Other

From the same entry

• have nine lives
• a nine days' wonder
• nine to five
• the whole nine yards
• dressed to the nines
• possession is nine tenths of the law

More idioms

• not in the slightest
• not know the first thing about
• not take kindly to
• one thing leads to another
• poke your nose into
• push to the back of your mind
• shut the door in face
• take a back seat
• the icing on the cake
• the lesser of two evils
• to put it mildly
• up to a point