gambling chance
Example Sentences
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When a business becomes shortsighted and is afraid to take a good gambling chance, it has started on a downgrade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had not the majority of the settlers taken this gambling chance of pulling through somehow, the West would never have been settled.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
"Do you mean to say, Frank, that you'd recommend a fellow to take a kind of gambling chance like that on an examination paper?"
From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.
The younger men took the gambling chance with it.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward
The chief difference between the two cases is that the wise plain man has enslaved himself for about thirty years instead of three, with naught but a sheer gambling chance of final reward!
From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold
