gambler's chance
Example Sentences
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Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fates had willed one or the other, and he chose to take the gambler’s chance, the chance he and Dolver and the Chief had refused Lane Morgan.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Seltzer, Charles Alden
It was a gambler's chance that Renwick took.
From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George
If, with his huge resources, he never did anything brilliant, still less did he ever take a gambler's chance of failing.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
Life without opportunity and without a gambler's chance to win a considerable prize is not attractive to anyone.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence
