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
A gambler's chance at stolen money—is that what you figure on buying, sir?
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
Yet Gunst & Baumer, as the promoters of Interstate Copper, would clear at least two thousand dollars by the sale of the stock to Abe and Morris; hence, Fiedler took a gambler's chance.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass
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 Charles Alden Seltzer
Even she could not escape his ruling passion; at the last analysis, even she represented to him a gambler’s chance.
From The Dark Star by William Dodge Stevens
