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
Which brings me to my requests, only one of which has a ghost of a chance.
From The Verge • Jun. 30, 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
I had not a ghost of a chance of calculating the distance to the stars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
