small chance

small chance
Synonyms and related words:
bare possibility, dark horse, doubtfulness, dubiousness, equivalent odds, even break, even chance, faint likelihood, fighting chance, gambling chance, good chance, hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, implausibility, improbability, incredibility, little chance, little expectation, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, no chance, odds, off chance, outside chance, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, price, questionableness, remote possibility, short odds, slim chance, square odds, unlikelihood

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