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Meaning of fat chance | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Little or no chance, a low or nonexistent likelihood of occurrence or success; a faint chance.

colloquial, idiomatic, sarcastic, uncountable

Examples

“Fat chance that I’ll ever go back to Swansea.”
“As soon as the word comes out of your mouth […] your own servant is going to size you up as one of those limousine liberals, or whatever epithet they use, who are busy pouring white soul all over the black movement, and would you do as much for the white lower class, for the domestics of the East Side, for example, fat chance, sahib.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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