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
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
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
Yet Gunst & Baumer, as the promoters of Interstate Copper, would clear at least two thousand dollars by the sale of the stock to Abe and Morris; hence, Fiedler took a gambler's chance.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
For the third time in ten hours, though puzzled and groping, trembling between gain and loss, he plunged on the gambler’s chance.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus
