hundred-to-one shot
Example Sentences
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Before her very eyes the stone which the builders had rejected had become the main thing, the hundred-to-one shot had walked away with the race.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Don't know what they are," he whispered to me, "but I'll take a hundred-to-one shot on anything he says.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry
I'm going to go you, though I think you're plunging on a hundred-to-one shot.
From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
He was never a hundred-to-one shot in that race now that the Mule had regained her head and was running away down mid-channel regardless of obstacles.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
