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
At the command, Marsh Tremper's mind had leaped to the fact that behind him was one man; one against five, and he took a gambler's chance.
From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Yet, when all is said and done, the catching of fish is a matter of luck—a gambler's chance, Page 5 if you will have it so.
From How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed
I'll take a gambler's chance that she hasn't and will give you $50,000 for her and $25,000 for the cargo that is waiting for her; you to take the cargo she brings in.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland
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 Preserved Smith
