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fat chance
Idioms and Phrases
Very little or no possibility, as in A fact chance he has of coming in first , or You think they'll get married? Fat chance! A related expression is a fat lot , meaning 鈥渧ery little or none at all,鈥 as in A fat lot of good it will do her . The first of these slangy sarcastic usages dates from the early 1900s, the second from the 1890s.Example Sentences
My Dad laughed and said something to the effect of 鈥渇at chance.鈥
Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor for North West England, said that many young Asian people who played cricket at home had a "fat chance" of making to professional teams.
But fat chance California would do that anyway.
I hoped that didn't really mean: fat chance.
There鈥檚 fat chance much of that will carry over into the Gritty meme war.
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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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