snowball's chance
Example Sentences
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“And maybe there’s this snowball’s chance in hell that maybe he wouldn’t go to the Dodgers or Giants and maybe come up here, so I kept my mouth shut.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023
“They don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a general election, so God bless them.”
From New York Times • May 25, 2021
Nobody – least of all Joaquin Phoenix’s snivelling party entertainer – believed he stood a snowball’s chance in hell.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2019
Then there are the policies that won’t have a snowball’s chance in Palm Beach over the next several years.
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2016
The chances of them listening to me were as good as a snowball’s chance in the Devil’s bake oven.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
