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even chance

n. an unpredictable phenomenon; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose" [syn: tossup, toss-up]

Usage examples of "even chance".

From all which he satisfied himself, that as he had every day a chance of this happening, so had he more than an even chance of its happening within a few years.

When the major said an even chance, that meant nobody gets special privileges!

In several of the cases, notably those of the children, there seemed to be at least an even chance of recovery, when the ligatures binding the affected limb were loosened to relieve the pain, with quickly fatal results.

As long as Avi retained this extemporaneous bullshitting ability there was a better than even chance of all of them making fuck-you money.

I can't guarantee the results of my makeshift mods, but there's at least an even chance that it will do what we want.

And it's fun, in a way, if your idea of joy is digging a mouse nest out of a live electrical socket on a wet wall while holding a flashlight in your mouth so the spiders have an even chance to explore your teeth.

Given that and my own reading of Cromarty and his government, I'd say we've got a better than even chance that they are.

It was an even chance whether he was more surprised or they were, but he was the first to recover.

Ab had felt that, although there was a better than even chance they would be exposed, surely the groundhogs couldn't stay angry for 23 years-even if they were unimpressed by the antimatter and other wonders .

It was no more than an even chance that the young man who calls himself Rand al’.

Elayne thought it an even chance whether she would burst into tears or swoon.