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chance

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chance something

to risk doing something; to try doing something while being aware of the risk involved. I don't usually ride horses, but this time I will chance it. Bob didn't have a ticket, but he went to the airport anyway, chancing a cancellation.

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• a fifty-fifty chance
• a fighting chance
• a ghost of a chance
• a sporting chance
• as much chance as a wax cat in hell
• be in with a chance
• blow (one's) chance
• Buckley's chance
• by any chance
• by chance
• chance
• chance arm
• chance it
• chance of a lifetime
• chance on
• chance upon
• chance upon (someone or something)
• Chance would be a fine thing!
• chances are
• Chinaman's chance
• dog's chance
• eye to the main chance, have an
• fancy chances
• fat chance
• Fat chance!
• fifty-fifty chance
• fighting chance
• ghost of a chance
• give (someone) a second chance
• give (someone) another chance
• Give me a chance!
• given half a chance
• have a cat in hell's chance
• have a chance in hell
• have a dog's chance
• have a fighting chance
• have a snowball's chance in hell
• have an eye for the main chance
• in with a chance
• jump at
• jump at the chance (to do something)
• last call
• last chance (for/at/to do something)
• leap at the chance (to do something)
• leap at the opportunity
• leave to chance
• let the chance slip by
• no chance
• not a chance
• Not a chance!
• not a Chinaman's chance
• not have a chance in hell
• not have a snowball's chance in hell and not a hope in hell
• not have an earthly chance
• off chance
• on the chance that
• on the off chance
• on the off-chance
• on the outside chance
• once-in-a-lifetime chance
• outside chance
• risk of rain
• slim chance
• snowball’s chance in hell
• snowball's chance in hell, a
• sporting chance
• sporting chance, a
• stand a chance
• stand a chance of
• take a chance
• take a chance on
• take chances
• take one's chances
• Tinker to Evers to Chance
• You pays your money and you takes your chance