gambler's chance
Example Sentences
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Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I had more than an inkling that my husband had been taking a gambler’s chance to reach the end in view.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Nicol Brinn mentally reviewed the intervening countryside, and taking a gambler's chance, took the Rolls Royce up the hill.
From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax
Napoleon was staking all on the throw, taking the gambler's chance, taking it recklessly, accepting the hazard, but neglecting no means to insure the winning of the game.
From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
For the third time in ten hours, though puzzled and groping, trembling between gain and loss, he plunged on the gambler’s chance.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus
