Meaning of take a chance | Babel Free

Definitions

To risk doing something; to try something risky.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist.”

“He took a chance on me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make.”

“[…] say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing to take a chance on experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures.”

“When we did not use the X-ray, if we broke a piece of root off in extracting a tooth, we took a chance, left it in, and expected it to work out.”

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