chance on

Verb

Meaning

find unexpectedly

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

strike discover come across come upon light upon fall upon happen upon chance upon find meet encounter attain run across bump into run into

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Antonyms

look for leave behind give someone the slip arrange a meeting in advance organize a meeting schedule a meeting in advance

Hypernyms

find regain

Examples

We want to take a chance on more democracy. Willy Brandt

I've learned many great leasson from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. Jim Carrey

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it. Jim Carrey

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. Toby Keith

Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. John Milton

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. Archie Shepp

Close letter words and terms

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