gambler's chance
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Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once more Broffin took the gambler's chance, spinning the coin in his hat, heads for Iowa and tails for Minnesota.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
Shaw, to his credit, chose the second and like a cornered wolf goaded to despair leaped up and forward to take a gambler's chance of gaining the hut.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
So long as they had fought with a gambler's chance, with the barest hope of success, it was easy to forget they were hungry, were weary unto death, were human at all.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
A gambler's chance at stolen money—is that what you figure on buying, sir?
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
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