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
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
Nicol Brinn mentally reviewed the intervening countryside, and taking a gambler's chance, took the Rolls Royce up the hill.
From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax
But I had more than an inkling that my husband had been taking a gambler’s chance to reach the end in view.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
