- chance arm
- chance (your) arm
British & Australian, informal
to take a risk in order to get something that you want.
Aren't you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start a business?
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chance arm
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chance your arm — chance your arm/luck/british informal phrase to decide to try to do something even though it may be dangerous or you may not succeed Thesaurus: to try hard to do or get somethingsynonym Main entry: chance * * * … Useful english dictionary
Chance fracture — Classification and external resources A chance fracture of T10 and fracture of T9 due to a seatbelt during an MVC. ICD 10 S22.0 ICD … Wikipedia
chance — ► NOUN 1) a possibility of something happening. 2) (chances) the probability of something happening. 3) an opportunity. 4) the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious design. ► VERB 1) do something by accident … English terms dictionary
arm-chancing — armˈ chancing noun and adjective see chance one s arm under ↑chance • • • Main Entry: ↑arm … Useful english dictionary
chance one's arm (or luck) Brit. — chance one s arm (or luck) Brit. informal risk doing something. → chance … English new terms dictionary
chance your arm — chance (your) arm British & Australian, informal to take a risk in order to get something that you want. Aren t you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start a business? … New idioms dictionary
chance one's arm — ► chance one s arm Brit. informal risk doing something. Main Entry: ↑chance … English terms dictionary
chance — chance1 W1S1 [tʃa:ns US tʃæns] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(possibility)¦ 2¦(opportunity)¦ 3¦(risk)¦ 4¦(likely to succeed)¦ 5¦(luck)¦ 6 stand/have a chance (of something/of doing something) 7 by any chance 8 any chance of ...? 9 be in with a chance … Dictionary of contemporary English
chance one's arm — If you chance your arm, you decide to do something even though there is little hope of success. Tony knew there was little hope of getting into Harvard but he decided to chance his arm anyway … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
chance — I UK [tʃɑːns] / US [tʃæns] noun Word forms chance : singular chance plural chances *** 1) a) [countable, usually singular] an opportunity for you to do something, especially something that you want to do get/have a chance: We work together… … English dictionary
