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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toriskdoing something; to try somethingrisky.Hetook a chanceby supporting the unknown artist.2009August 28, Ewan Murray,I owe my Rangers career to Sir David Murray, says Walter Smith, The Guardian:Hetook a chanceon me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make.1982February 19, Harold C. Schonberg, “Cuts In Federal Arts Budgets To Hit Small Groups Hardest”, inThe New York Times:[…]say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing totake a chanceon experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures.1919, John Hugh McQuillenet al.,The Dental Cosmos, V.61, page728:When we did not use the X-ray, if we broke a piece of root off in extracting a tooth, wetook a chance, left it in, and expected it to work out.
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