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slim chance

n. little or no chance of success [syn: fat chance]

Usage examples of "slim chance".

Clinton McCann work, she was more than willing to gamble on that slim chance.

My battle-and any slim chance at victory I might have-can only lie therein, in the pattern of my yielding.

The doctors have told us there's a very slim chance that I'd be able to conceive.

If by some miracle he could reach Saint Louis before the pirates sold his furs, he might still reclaim them, and on that slim chance he acted.

His shortsightedness had taken away their one slim chance of escape.

Purofsky said one of us had to take the risk-either him or me-and go with Streaker, on the slim chance that she makes it.

Almost a hundred ancient derelict ships had been resurrected from the subsea graveyard by Hannes Suessi and his clever dolphin engineers in order to help mask Streaker's breakout, giving the Earthlings a slim chance against the overpowering Jophur dreadnought.

Missions with slim chance of success, but compelled by duty and curiosity.