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
It was good, in fact, for thirty cents cash, with a gambling chance up to five dollars; and the wise ones began to buy.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
Wheat is scarce for export even in the States just now, so I'm taking a gambling chance on getting this to port before the first quantities come from the north.
From Harrigan by Max Brand
The younger men took the gambling chance with it.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
"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 Burt L. Standish
