hundred-to-one shot
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Any wise bookmaker would of posted her up in this race as a hundred-to-one shot.
From Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson
It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
He was never a hundred-to-one shot in that race now that the Mule had regained her head and was running away down mid-channel regardless of obstacles.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
I'm going to go you, though I think you're plunging on a hundred-to-one shot.
From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Before her very eyes the stone which the builders had rejected had become the main thing, the hundred-to-one shot had walked away with the race.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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