Смысл: bechance

bechance[bıʹtʃɑ:ns]
v книжн.
<Í> 1) случаться; происходить случайно
2) выпадать на (чью-л.) долю
all happiness bechance to thee! (Shakespeare) - да сопутствует тебе удача во всём!

not have a Chinaman's chance Идиома

a fighting chance

a fair chance, a good chance If I can get a job interview, I'll have a fighting chance.

a ghost of a chance

a poor chance, not likely to happen That car doesn't have a ghost of a chance. It's too slow!

a slim chance

very little chance, not likely to happen """Is it going to rain today?"" ""Maybe. There's a slim chance."""

a snowball's chance in hell

little or no chance to succeed If I write the test now, I won't have a snowball's chance in hell.

chances are

it is quite possible, it may be Chances are they're lost, and that's why they're late.

fat chance

very little chance, not likely Me? Type 100 words per minute? Fat chance!

fighting chance

(See a fighting chance)

hundred to one shot/chance

a small chance not likely to bring success He only has a hundred to one shot at getting the job that he has applied for.

jump at the chance

be ready to try if you have the opportunity If I was asked to play with their band, I'd jump at the chance.

slim chance

(See a slim chance)

not accept a Chinaman's chance

offensive slang To accept actually no adventitious whatsoever. This racist, aspersing byword originated in the 1800s and referred to Chinese immigrants who formed for acutely low wages, faced racism and college taxation, and were banned from testifying in cloister for abandon committed adjoin them. "Chinaman" is a ancestral accusation for a Chinese person. A: "They don't accept a Chinaman's adventitious of acceptable the championship." B: "Grandad! You can't say abhorrent things like that anymore!"Learn more: chance, have, not

Chinaman's chance, he hasn't a/not a

No adventitious whatever. The appellation dates from the closing bisected of the nineteenth century, back Chinese immigrants came to California to advice body railroads. Their attendance was acutely against because they would assignment for far beneath than white workers. “We are broke by bargain labor,” wrote Bret Harte in his composition “Plain Language from Truthful James.” According to some authorities, the appellation activated to those Chinese who approved to supplement their balance by alive claims and streams alone by gold prospectors, a around hopeless undertaking. Others, artist John Ciardi amid them, accept it derives from the way they were admired as around subhuman and had no acknowledged recourse if, for example, they were robbed, attacked, or contrarily abused. It abundantly replaced the earlier not a dog’s chance, at atomic in America, but is now advised offensive. Also see fat chance; snowball's chance.Learn more: he, not

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slash and burn sleep a wink sleep around sleep in sleep it off sleep on it sleeper sleepy head slim chance slimebucket slip slip a notch slip away slip of the tongue slip one slip out slip up not go far not go nap on not go there not going to win any beauty contests not grow on trees not half not half (something) not half as (something) (as someone or something) not half as good, nice, etc. as somebody/something not half bad not happy, Jan not harm a hair of someone's head not harm a hair on (one's) head not harm/touch a hair of somebody's head not have (any of) it not have (one's) heart in (something) not have a (kind of) bone in (one's) body not have a (snowball's) chance in hell not have a (some kind of) bone in (one's) body not have a bar of (something) not have a bar of something not have a bean not have a care in the world not have a cat in hell's chance not have a chance in hell (of doing something) not have a Chinaman's chance not have a clue not have a ghost of a chance not have a good word to say about (someone of something) not have a good word to say for (someone of something) not have a hope in hell not have a hope in hell (of doing something) not have a leg to stand on not have a look in not have a lot on not have a minute to call (one's) own not have a penny not have a penny to (one's) name not have a penny to bless (oneself) with not have a penny to bless yourself with not have a penny to your name not have a pot to pee in (or a window to throw it out of) not have a pot to piss in not have a prayer not have a red cent not have a shot in (one's) locker not have a snowball's chance in hell not have a snowball's chance in hell and not a hope in hell not have a stitch of clothes not have a stitch of clothes (one) not have a stitch of clothing (one)