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
To reorganize the schools with that possibility in mind was for the parents a surrender of their gambling chance.
From Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators by Marot, Helen
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 Coolidge, Dane
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
"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.
