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
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
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 Brand, Max
"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.
Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
