gambler's chance
Example Sentences
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Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts.
From Time Magazine Archive
We’ve taken a gambler’s chance on a big thing, and we’ve lost.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
You think it has, Mr. Gorham; but that is where the gambler's chance comes in.
From The Lever A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana
But he had thrown away a gambler's chance by a moment of frenzied struggle.
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Tracy, Louis
The fates had willed one or the other, and he chose to take the gambler’s chance, the chance he and Dolver and the Chief had refused Lane Morgan.
From 'Drag' Harlan by Seltzer, Charles Alden
