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no chance

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no chance

(idiomatic) Absolutely not; under no circumstances. [from 18th c.]
Synonyms: not a chance, not on your life, no way, nothing doing, no fear, by no means, chance'd be a fine thing
You want to borrow three hundred dollars? No chance!
I will never again eat that stuff. No chance!

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There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. Steve Ballmer

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

Die before you die, there is no chance after. C. S. Lewis

The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism. C. Wright Mills

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. Frederick Douglass

The foreign person is blind and the killed person has no chance. Kurdish Proverb

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