Phrase Hound found 70 phrases and 26 compound words that contain chance. The most common are listed below. Open chance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 70
- take a chanceTo risk doing something; to try something risky.
- second chanceAn opportunity to redeem oneself after a previous error or failure.
- taking a chancepresent participle and gerund of take a chance
- half a chanceSynonym of half-chance: A slight chance.
- game of chanceA game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables (chance and luck) rather than strictly by strategy.
- took a chancesimple past of take a chance
- takes a chancethird-person singular simple present indicative of take a chance: To risk doing something; to try something risky.
- Come By ChanceA town on the Avalon Peninsula isthmus, in east Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- Last Chance
- Another Chance
- taken a chancepast participle of take a chance: To risk doing something; to try something risky.
- off chanceA possibility that is not likely or probable.
- stand a chanceTo have a chance.
- main chanceA venture which stands the best likelihood of success; a risk; fortune (of a person, country etc.).
- outside chanceA small likelihood; a remote possibility.
- fighting chanceA chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable.
- chance cardA card, in any of various games, with instructions to be followed by a player whose token lands on a "chance" space, usually affording them some chance opportunity or inflicting upon them some chance misfortune.
- fat chanceLittle or no chance, a low or nonexistent likelihood of occurrence or success; a faint chance.
- half-chanceA slight chance.
- One Chance
- leave to chanceNot to take care of something; not to plan for something.
- games of chanceplural of game of chance: A game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables (chance and luck) rather than strictly by strategy.
- sporting chanceA fairly reasonable chance of success.
- Tinker to Evers to ChanceA famous baseball infield double-play combination.
- stood a chancesimple past and past participle of stand a chance
Compound words 26
- chancyUncertain; risky; hazardous.
- overchanceOccurring more than expected by mere chance or probability.
- happenchanceCoincidence.
- chancestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of chance
- chancewiseBy chance; at random.
- unchancedNot chanced.
- antichanceDue to more than mere random chance; showing evidence of a greater plan or scheme.
- unchancemisfortune
- wanchanceIll luck; misfortune; calamity.
- chanceableHappening by chance; accidental