hundred-to-one shot
Example Sentences
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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
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
Movements of any kind would be sure to discover them to the enemy lookout, but lacking that movement it is a hundred-to-one shot they will be undetected.
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
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
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
