hundred-to-one shot
Example Sentences
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It's a hundred-to-one shot in the first place, and there is Arthur in the second.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
Everybody," I said, "entertains notions of cleaning up a bundle by having the hundred-to-one shot come in by a length.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau
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
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
Don't know what they are," he whispered to me, "but I'll take a hundred-to-one shot on anything he says.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
