fighting chance

noun
1.
a possibility of success following a struggle.
Origin
1885-90
Examples from the web for fighting chance
  • To stand a fighting chance, the ideas in your project must be both good and well positioned relative to other grant proposals.
  • The fairness in that is that if you are given enough information and resources, you have a fighting chance.
  • Then, in theory, the government will establish its authority and will have a fighting chance.
  • He is an insurgent whenever there is a fighting chance it will do him any good.
  • Typically, that tool is a gun and even when ammo is finite, having a gun means you have a fighting chance.
  • Track hordes of insects and you have a fighting chance to protect your crops.
  • Our view is that it would be better to go into it with consumer-demand backing and know that you have a fighting chance.
  • Give your carry-on a fighting chance to actually fit into the overhead.
  • Its not about fixing the country, its about giving it a fighting chance.
  • Throw something to the people invested in the status quo though and you have a fighting chance for change.
British Dictionary definitions for fighting chance

fighting chance

noun
1.
a slight chance of success dependent on a struggle
Idioms and Phrases with fighting chance

fighting chance

A possibility of winning, but only with a struggle. For example, It's going to be hard to beat that record, but I think he has a fighting chance. [ Late 1800s ]