Question

"he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't change sides"

what does this mean in Standard American English? plz help

Answer 1

He had many manners and he was always lending his money out to people for any apparent reason just to try to beat someone in a bet.

Answer 2

It means that the person was a gambler.

Step-by-step explanation:

The line belongs to The Notorious Frog of Calaveras County, a short story written by Mark Twain. It narrates the story of a guy that narrates another story (called a frame story) about a guy that used to bet on everything. The person described in the story takes his actions (betting) to a point where he puts his money on a frog that had been manipulated before the bet. With this phrase, the speaker wants to express that the guy was totally a gambler.