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BOARDS, ACROSS THE

BOARDS, ACROSS THE
ScnOEC
including everyone or all; so that all are included. Originally a phrase from horse racing wherein equal amounts of money are bet on the same horse to win a race, to place second or third. You ask Dick sometime if I didn't tell him several years ago, "Well Dick, when we can make it roll all the way across the boards with not a single technical slip, I'll be willing to let it roll."