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

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

Once more Broffin took the gambler's chance, spinning the coin in his hat, heads for Iowa and tails for Minnesota.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

At the command, Marsh Tremper's mind had leaped to the fact that behind him was one man; one against five, and he took a gambler's chance.

From Pardners by Beach, Rex Ellingwood