Assertion: bookmaker's book | /r/CapableOf | lick their wounds
Facets:
value: after the race
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: After the race, three books are licking their wounds having probably laid around 800/100 and a few bits and pieces as the price collapsed to 9/2.
text: After the race, three books are licking their wounds having probably laid around 800/100 and a few bits and pieces as the price collapsed to 9/2.Soon transpires that rookie bookmaker has laid 2800/350.When asked why he laid such a bet on a maiden race rather than knock the punter back for part, his response was I did cut him, he asked for £400 at 8/1!