hedge (your) bets

to protect yourself against making the wrong choice.

Forecasters were hedging their bets about the storm, saying that it could bring lots of snow, or it could head away from us.

• low ebb
• low-end
• lower guard
• lower sights
• lower the boom
• lower the tone
• lower your guard
• lower your sights
• lowest common denominator
• lowest of the low
• low-key
• low life
• low man on the totem pole
• low on the totem pole
• luck into
• center on someone
• center on something
• C'est la vie.
• chalk something up to
• chalk something up to something else
• chalk up
• chalk up something
• chalk up to
• chalk up to something else
• champ at the bit