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fat chance



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Idioms and Phrases

Very little or no possibility, as in A fact chance he has of coming in first , or You think they'll get married? Fat chance! A related expression is a fat lot , meaning “very little or none at all,” as in A fat lot of good it will do her . The first of these slangy sarcastic usages dates from the early 1900s, the second from the 1890s.
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Example Sentences

Brooks: Here comes Peter, folks, the well-known director of Busting and Fat Chance, hopping down the bunny trail.

Fat chance that would get through this, or perhaps any, Congress.

To his subjects like Lauder, who joked that he hoped “he manipulates the lines out of my face,” Samaras responds “fat chance.”

Why does a fat chance and a slim chance mean the same thing?

Just my luck to miss a nice fat chance like that—the beggar was never caught, he seemed to vanish into thin air.

“Fat chance we have of winning now,” Dan said as the final event of the meet was called.

You had a fat chance of talking the old Major out of anything!

And he doesn't tell me anything except that we stand a fat chance of losing everything.

“Fat chance of digging up a live Indian in Webster City,” he scoffed.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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