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
As you say, it was a gambler’s chance.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Here was a gambler’s chance, action and adventure.
From The Blood of the Conquerors by Fergusson, Harvey
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.
To the listener it seemed astounding that any responsible man should be lured by such gambler's chance; he could hardly find patience to point out the manifest risks so desperately incurred.
From Will Warburton by Gissing, George
