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

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 Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)

Every gent, from his cradle to his coffin, has got to take a gambler's chance.

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

Americans still have an idea that the German Government adopted the submarine campaign as the last despairing gambler's chance, and that they only half believed in its success themselves.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

I'll take a gambler's chance that she hasn't and will give you $50,000 for her and $25,000 for the cargo that is waiting for her; you to take the cargo she brings in.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow