off-chance

I suppose we may as well go for a prowl to-night, on the off-chance of finding him.

Oddly enough, it seems as if it might—there's just the off-chance—it might affect the issue.'

Corder stood in the door for a moment, on the off-chance that his friend might be joking.

It was an off-chance, and he well knew it; but there was nothing else to be done.

He kept it on the off-chance of being able to make something out of it.

Think I'll cut off my crust at dinner to-night on the off-chance, anyway!

It's not irreverent for me to say it, I hope—but God comes in on the off-chance, George.

We are asked to set aside the data of experience and act on an off-chance.

Every week at least I went round to try and see him on the off-chance of an engagement.

He lifted the latch of the door, on the off-chance; the door opened.