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a snowball's chance in hell
- Something that has no likelihood of happening or succeeding: 鈥淵our proposal is too radical 鈥 it has a snowball's chance in hell of being approved.鈥
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No chance at all, as in He hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of getting there in two hours . This idiom, nearly always used negatively, alludes to the traditional view of hell as extremely hot, causing snow to melt at once. [Late 1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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