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
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 Glass, Montague
Napoleon was staking all on the throw, taking the gambler's chance, taking it recklessly, accepting the hazard, but neglecting no means to insure the winning of the game.
From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
But I had more than an inkling that my husband had been taking a gambler’s chance to reach the end in view.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
To the listener it seemed astounding that any responsible man should be lured by such gambler's chance; he could hardly find patience to point out the manifest risks so desperately incurred.
From Will Warburton by Gissing, George
