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
So long as they had fought with a gambler's chance, with the barest hope of success, it was easy to forget they were hungry, were weary unto death, were human at all.
From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
It was a gambler's chance that Renwick took.
From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George
Yet Gunst & Baumer, as the promoters of Interstate Copper, would clear at least two thousand dollars by the sale of the stock to Abe and Morris; hence, Fiedler took a gambler's chance.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
I'll take a gambler's chance that she hasn't and will give you $50,000 for her and $25,000 for the cargo that is waiting for her; you to take the cargo she brings in.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow
