ghost of a chance
Example Sentences
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Such a novel doesn’t sound like it has a ghost of a chance, but Karunatilaka is used to beating the odds.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
You make a trade-off every time you choose a password you have a ghost of a chance of remembering.
From The Verge • Jan. 22, 2020
The looks of disbelief no doubt reflected that Laufenberg shouldn’t have had a ghost of a chance to survive his encounter with a train.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2016
Someone, somewhere had noticed the ghost of a chance of a scintilla of a shadow of a possibility that there was something new to say about the Moors murders.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013
If they were sucked into the center of the whirling wind-top there wasn’t a ghost of a chance.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
