hundred-to-one shot

Example Sentences

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Any wise bookmaker would of posted her up in this race as a hundred-to-one shot.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

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

It's a hundred-to-one shot in the first place, and there is Arthur in the second.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

Everybody," I said, "entertains notions of cleaning up a bundle by having the hundred-to-one shot come in by a length.

From The Big Fix by Bernklau

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)