Lombard Street is in the business area of London, and the Bank of England is there, so if you bet all of that (a huge amount of money) against a China orange (something of little value), you must be pretty sure you're going to win.
Lombard Street is in the business area of London, and the Bank of England is there, so if you bet all of that (a huge amount of money) against a China orange (something of little value), you must be pretty sure you're going to win.
Oh, and here:
"The Sydney race caller Ken Howard is credited with the phrase London to a brick. Brick was Australian slang for a £10 note (from its reddish colour), and so if, towards the end of a race, Howard claimed that the odds of a particular horse winning were London to a brick, he was saying that the horse was at extreme odds-on, with an indisputable chance." http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/pubs/ozwords/October_96/2._horseracing.htm