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, when all is said and done, the catching of fish is a matter of luck—a gambler's chance, Page 5 if you will have it so.
From How to Cook Fish by Reed, Myrtle
Every gent, from his cradle to his coffin, has got to take a gambler's chance.
From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry
Don't take a gambler's chance by sending out your scripts without knowing precisely what is a good prospect.
From Writing the Photoplay by Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)
Nicol Brinn mentally reviewed the intervening countryside, and taking a gambler's chance, took the Rolls Royce up the hill.
From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax
