take a chance on

take a chance on someone or something

to gamble that something good might happen or that someone might do well; to take a risk that something would go wrong or that someone would do badly. I just couldn't take a chance on Walter, so I picked David. I would never take a chance on that horse!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sears	[siəz]
Veronika	vye-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), vee-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), ve-RO-nee-kah (German, Croatian)	Russian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norweg
Montana	mahn-TAN-ə	English (Modern)
Laurence (1)	LAWR-ənts	English
Steven	STEEV-ən (English), STAY-vən (Dutch)	English, Dutch
Olja	-	Serbian