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fighting chance
noun
- a possibility of success following a struggle.
fighting chance
noun
- a slight chance of success dependent on a struggle
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fighting chance1
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Idioms and Phrases
A possibility of winning, but only with a struggle. For example, It's going to be hard to beat that record, but I think he has a fighting chance . [Late 1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need.
What kept him going was the belief that he had a fighting chance to beat the disease.
If anything is going to get Hillary Clinton paying attention to those voices, A Fighting Chance will be it.
But I bet that at least a few, who have touched the painful quick of their own humble humanity, can have a fighting chance.
If Best Buy still has folks like Stephen Gillett," I told myself, "they've still got a fighting chance.
They knew that we were waiting for them, but at the worst they had a fighting chance with us, and none with what came behind.
We remember that we have a ninety-seven and a half fighting chance out of a hundred, and we are willing to take it.
"We'll have to take our fighting chance of that," Jack replied.
In spite of his vacillation and final failure to evacuate Dresden, Napoleon had an excellent fighting chance.
We wouldn't stand a fighting chance except for one thing—Thomas himself.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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