HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL

Meaning of HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL in English

v. phr. To be condemned to failure; enjoy a zero chance of success. Pessimists used to think that we had a snowball's chance in hell to put a man on the moon; yet we did it in July, 1969.

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HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL — {v. phr.} To be condemned to failure; enjoy a zero chance of success. * /Pessimists used to think that we …
Slang English vocab
HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL — {v. phr.} To be condemned to failure; enjoy a zero chance of success. * /Pessimists used to think that we …
Словарь английских идиом
S — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird's/eagle's/crow's etc nest ▪ an abandoned bird's nest a bird's/eagle's/crow's etc nest ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAVE — I. auxiliary verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES As we have seen ▪ As we have seen in chapter four, women’s …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNOWBALL — I. noun Date: 15th century 1. a round mass of snow pressed or rolled together, snow cone , any of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SNOWBALL — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: Middle English, from snow + ball 1. a. (1) : a small round mass of snow …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HELL — I. ˈhel noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English helan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAVE — I. (|)hav, (|)hev; as an auxiliary “ or _(h)əv or after a vowel v; before “to” usually |haf or |hef …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHANCE — I. ˈchan(t)s, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French cheance, chance, from (assumed) Vulgar …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — /snoh"bawl'/ , n. 1. a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing. 2. any of several shrubs …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HELL — — hell-like , adj. /hel/ , n. 1. the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAVE — /hav/ ; unstressed /heuhv, euhv/ ; for 26 usually /haf/ , v. and auxiliary v., pres. sing. 1st pers. have …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHANCE — — chanceless , adj. /chans, chahns/ , n. , v. , chanced, chancing , adj. n. 1. the absence of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — I. ˈsnō-ˌbȯl noun Date: 15th century 1. a. : a round mass of snow pressed or rolled together b. : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHANCE — I. ˈchan(t)s noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin * cadentia fall, from Latin cadent-, cadens, present participle …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HELL — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English helan to conceal, Old High German helan, Latin celare, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SNOWBALL — noun the guelder-rose. 2. snowball ·vi to throw snowballs. 3. snowball ·vt to pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. …
Webster English vocab
HELL — vt a gambling house. 2. hell ·vt to overwhelm. 3. hell ·vt a place where outcast persons or things are …
Webster English vocab
CHANCE — adv by chance; perchance. 2. chance ·adj happening by chance; casual. 3. chance ·noun probability. 4. chance ·noun the operation …
Webster English vocab
SNOWBALL — [snow.ball] n (15c) 1 a: a round mass of snow pressed or rolled together b: shaved ice molded into a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HELL — [hell] n [ME, fr. OE; akin to OE helan to conceal, OHG helan, L celare, Gk kalyptein] (bef. 12c) 1 …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHANCE — [chance] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. (assumed) VL cadentia fall, fr. L cadent-, cadens, prp. of cadere to fall; perh. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HELL — the abode or state of being of evil spirits or souls that are damned to postmortem punishment. Derived from an …
Britannica English vocabulary
SNOWBALL — snowball, S~ BrE AmE ˈsnəʊ bɔːl AmE ˈsnoʊ- -bɑːl ▷ snowball|ed d ▷ snowball|ing ɪŋ ▷ snowball|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — / ˈsnəʊbɔːl; NAmE ˈsnoʊ-/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a ball that you make out of …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HELL — / hel; NAmE / noun 1. [ sing. ] (usually Hell ) (used without a or the ) in some …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAVE — / həv; NAmE ; əv; strong form hæv/ verb , auxiliary verb ➡ irregular verbs ■ verb (In some senses …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHANCE — / tʃɑːns; NAmE tʃæns/ noun , verb , adjective ■ noun 1. [ C , U ] chance of doing …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — I. snow ‧ ball 1 /ˈsnəʊbɔːl $ ˈsnoʊbɒːl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . a ball of snow that children …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNOWBALL — Snowball BrE AmE a main character in Animal Farm , a ↑ satire on the Soviet Union by George Orwell. …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HELL — I. hell 1 S1 W3 /hel/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ] 1 . WHEN YOU DIE [uncountable] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAVE — I. have 1 S1 W1 /v, əv, həv; strong hæv/ BrE AmE auxiliary verb ( past tense and past participle …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CHANCE — I. chance 1 S1 W1 /tʃɑːns $ tʃæns/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SNOWBALL — n. & v. --n. 1 snow pressed together into a ball, esp. for throwing in play. 2 anything that grows …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HELL — n. 1 a place regarded in some religions as the abode of the dead, or of condemned sinners and devils. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SNOWBALL — n. & v. n. 1 snow pressed together into a ball, esp. for throwing in play. 2 anything that grows …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HELL — n. 1 a place regarded in some religions as the abode of the dead, or of condemned sinners and devils. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. n. 1 a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — n. & v. --n. 1. snow pressed together into a ball, esp. for throwing in play. 2 anything that grows …
Oxford English vocab
HELL — n.1 a place regarded in some religions as the abode of the dead, or of condemned sinners and devils. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
CHANCE — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. a a possibility (just a chance we will catch the train). b (often in …
Oxford English vocab
HAVE — I. AUXILIARY VERB USES /həv, STRONG hæv/ ( has, having, had) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — ( snowballs, snowballing, snowballed) 1. A snowball is a ball of snow. Children often throw snowballs at each other. N-COUNT …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HELL — ( hells) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. In some religions, hell …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHANCE — ( chances, chancing, chanced) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If there …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SNOWBALL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN effect ▪ All this has a snowball effect on the day's turnover and …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HELL — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (as) mad as hell (= a rude way of saying very angry ) cast sb …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CHANCE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chance in a million ▪ It was a chance in a million that …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SNOWBALL — [noun] [C] - a ball of snow pressed together in the hands, esp. for throwingSomeone threw a snowball at me …
Cambridge English vocab
HELL — (EXPRESSION) exclamation, [noun] [U] - used to express anger or to give emphasis to an expressionOh hell, I've forgotten my …
Cambridge English vocab
CHANCE — Synonyms and related words : a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HELL — See: COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, GO THROUGH HELL AND HIGH WATER, HELL-ON-WHEELS, LIKE HELL, TO HELL WITH, UNTIL HELL …
Slang English vocab
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Slang English vocab
SNOWBALL — noun Snowball is used before these nouns: ↑ fight
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CHANCE — I. noun 1 possibility ADJECTIVE ▪ excellent , good , high , real , strong ▪ There is a very …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CHANCE — INDEX: when something happens by chance 1. when something happens without being planned 2. happening by chance 3. when things …
Longman Activator English vocab
CHANCE — See ↑ CHANCE 2,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ an outside chance • ↑ blow it/blow your chance • ↑ by chance …
Longman Activator English vocab
HELL — n. 25B6; noun they feared hell : THE NETHERWORLD, the Inferno, the infernal regions, the abyss; eternal damnation, perdition; hellfire, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — n. 25B6; noun there was a chance he might be released : POSSIBILITY, prospect, probability, likelihood, likeliness, expectation, anticipation; risk, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — n. 1 fortune, luck, fate We met, as chance would have it, at the supermarket Life is but a game …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HELL — See: COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, GO THROUGH HELL AND HIGH WATER, HELL-ON-WHEELS, LIKE HELL, TO HELL WITH, UNTIL HELL …
Словарь английских идиом
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Словарь английских идиом

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