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
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
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
Don't take a gambler's chance by sending out your scripts without knowing precisely what is a good prospect.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
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
