hundred-to-one shot

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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.

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

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 that father will never see his rug again.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

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