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
We’ve taken a gambler’s chance on a big thing, and we’ve lost.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Even she could not escape his ruling passion; at the last analysis, even she represented to him a gambler’s chance.
From The Dark Star by Stevens, William Dodge
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
His capacity, education and environment deny him the gambler's chance of a prize.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence
