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

Every gent, from his cradle to his coffin, has got to take a gambler's chance.

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

To the listener it seemed astounding that any responsible man should be lured by such gambler's chance; he could hardly find patience to point out the manifest risks so desperately incurred.

From Will Warburton by Gissing, George

At the command, Marsh Tremper's mind had leaped to the fact that behind him was one man; one against five, and he took a gambler's chance.

From Pardners by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

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)