not have a prayer

to have no chance With an injured ankle, he doesn't have a prayer of winning the race.

Usage notes: sometimes used without not: Do we have a prayer of convincing him to go?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
&Thorn;ÓRgnÝR	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Hammurabi	ham-ə-RAH-bee (English)	Ancient Near Eastern, History
Thore	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Vilma	VEEL-mah (Finnish)	Spanish, Hungarian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Mina (2)	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil
Helmfrid	-	Ancient Germanic