HUNDRED TO ONE SHOT/CHANCE

Meaning of HUNDRED TO ONE SHOT/CHANCE in English

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.

English idioms vocab. Словарь английских идиом и выражений. 2012

HUNDRED — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) {{link=Hundred Days">Hundred Days Hundred Years' War
Английский словарь Британика
SHOT — I. ˈshät, usu -äd.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scot, sceot; akin to Old Frisian …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HUNDRED — I. ˈhəndrə̇d, ÷ -ndə(r)d, rapid -nə(r)d, dial or substand -nə(r)t noun ( plural hundreds or hundred ) Etymology: Middle English, …
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
HUNDRED — (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Английский словарь Webster
HUNDRED — (n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
Английский словарь Webster
SHOT — shot 1 — shotless , adj. — shotlike , adj. /shot/ , n. , pl. shots or, for 6, 8, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HUNDRED — /hun"drid/ , n. , pl. hundreds , ( as after a numeral ) hundred , adj. n. 1. a cardinal …
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
SHOT — I. ˈshät noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceot, scot; akin to Old High German scuz, Old Norse skot …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
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
HUNDRED — noun ( plural hundreds or hundred ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from hund hundred + -red (akin to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHOT — pl of shot. 2. shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of shoot. 3. shot ·vt to load with shot, as a …
Webster English vocab
HUNDRED — adj ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. 2. hundred ·noun a division of a country in england, …
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
SHOT — [shot] n [ME, fr. OE scot; akin to ON skot shot, OHG scuz, OE sceotan to shoot--more at shoot] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HUNDRED — [hun.dred] n, pl hundreds or hundred [ME, fr. OE, fr. hund hundred + -red (akin to Goth rathjo account, number); …
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
HUNDRED — unit of English local government, intermediate between village and shire, which survived into the 19th century. Originally, the term probably …
Britannica English vocabulary
HUNDRED — hundred BrE AmE ˈhʌndr əd -ɪd ˈhʌnd ə rd ▷ hundred|s z ▶ ˌ hundreds and ˈ thousands BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHOT — / ʃɒt; NAmE ʃɑːt/ noun , adjective —see also shoot , shot , shot verb ■ noun WITH GUN 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HUNDRED — / ˈhʌndrəd; NAmE / number ( plural verb ) 1. 100 : One hundred (of the children) have already been …
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
SHOT — I. shot 1 S2 W2 /ʃɒt $ ʃɑːt/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: scot ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HUNDRED — hun ‧ dred /ˈhʌndrəd, ˈhʌndrɪd/ BrE AmE number , noun ( plural hundred or hundreds ) [ Language: Old English …
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
SHOT — n. 1 the act or an instance of firing a gun, cannon, etc. (several shots were heard). 2 an attempt …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HUNDRED — n. & adj. --n. (pl. hundreds or (in sense 1) hundred) (in sing., prec. by a or one) 1 the …
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
SHOT — n. 1 the act or an instance of firing a gun, cannon, etc. (several shots were heard). 2 an attempt …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HUNDRED — n. & adj. n. (pl. hundreds or (in sense 1) hundred) (in sing., prec. by a or one) 1 the …
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
SHOT — 1. n.1 the act or an instance of firing a gun, cannon, etc. (several shots were heard). 2 an attempt …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
HUNDRED — n. & adj. --n. (pl. hundreds or (in sense 1) hundred) (in sing., prec. by a or one) 1. the …
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
SHOT — ( shots) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Shot is the past …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HUNDRED — ( hundreds) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The plural form is …
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
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HUNDRED — number COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a round hundred/dozen etc (= a complete hundred etc ) good for some time/a hundred …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CHANCE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HUNDRED — [determiner], [noun], [pronoun] [plural] hundred or hundreds - (the number) 100ninety-eight, ninety-nine, a/one hundred, a hundred and oneWe've driven a/one …
Cambridge English vocab
HUNDRED — n. Four Hundred Council of the Hundred Days Hundred Years' War
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SHOT
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — Synonyms and related words : a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Slang English vocab
CHANCE
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
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
SHOT — n. 1 discharge, shooting The town was captured without a shot being fired 2 bullet, ball, slug, cannon-ball, buckshot, pellet, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
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
CHANCE — See: BY CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, STAND A CHANCE, TAKE A CHANCE.
Словарь английских идиом
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
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