stack the odds in favor of (someone)

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: to make it more likely for someone to win, succeed, etc.

There are things you can do to stack the odds in favor of your candidate.

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Recent Examples on the Web Instead, existing inequities stack the odds in favor of the virus. —

Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020

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