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

But he had thrown away a gambler's chance by a moment of frenzied struggle.

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis

You think it has, Mr. Gorham; but that is where the gambler's chance comes in.

From The Lever A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana

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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

It looks to me, Quince, you want a gambler's chance where you can't lose.

From The Outlet by Adams, Andy