gambling chance

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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

"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

But Reeve, standing erect like some duelist of old, his left hand tucked into the hollow of his back, took the great gambling chance and refused to shoot to kill.

From Bull Hunter by Brand, Max

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