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hundred-to-one shot

NOUN

dark horse

Synonyms

STRONGEST

also-ran long shot sleeper underdog

WEAK

improbability little chance little opportunity outside chance outside shot poor bet poor lookout poor possibility poor prognosis poor prospect slim chance small chance stalking horse unexpected winner unknown unknown quantity unlikelihood unlikely winner upsetter

NOUN

long shot

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fluke

WEAK

chance hit little chance long odds lucky shot no chance off-chance one in a million outside chance poor bed slim chance small chance

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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

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.

Movements of any kind would be sure to discover them to the enemy lookout, but lacking that movement it is a hundred-to-one shot they will be undetected.

From The Emma Gees by McBride, Herbert Wes

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)

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

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

hundred-to-one shot

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