hundred-to-one shot

Example Sentences

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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 Wilson, Harry Leon

It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

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 Blossom, Henry M.

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 Elliott, Francis Perry

I'm going to go you, though I think you're plunging on a hundred-to-one shot.

From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby