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
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 Smith, Preserved
His capacity, education and environment deny him the gambler's chance of a prize.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence
It looks to me, Quince, you want a gambler's chance where you can't lose.
From The Outlet by Adams, Andy
To drop down, on the off-chance of finding his quarry, was taking a gambler's chance, and Tam prided himself that he was no gambler.
From Tam o' the Scoots by Wallace, Edgar
