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

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

Shaw, to his credit, chose the second and like a cornered wolf goaded to despair leaped up and forward to take a gambler's chance of gaining the hut.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.

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

I understand it's a gamble, and I'm taking a gambler's chance.

From Hiram the Young Farmer by Todd, Burbank L.