Meaning of dog's chance | Babel Free

Definitions

Little or no likelihood.

idiomatic

Examples

“"Poor old boy was in a pretty bad way. Fact is,I didn't give him a dog's chance."”

“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 a dog’s chance against Amundsen.”

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