dog's chance

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Little or nolikelihood.1936,F.J. Thwaites, chapter XVII, inThe Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published1940, page177:"Poor old boy was in a pretty bad way. Fact is,I didn't give him adog's chance."2014September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, inThe Guardian:One day, more than 60 years ago, we went as a family to the National Wallace Monument. My father took a binary, black-and-white approach to people and things: in toothpaste, Colgate was bad and Euthymol good; in bicycles, Raleigh was preferred to BSA; in Polar explorers, Captain Scott didn’t stand adog’s chanceagainst Amundsen.

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