as likely as not

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as likely as not

probably. She didn't usually work all night, but she was as likely as not to be at the lab at any given time.

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It was not a love of the grandiose or the prestige attached to the command of great tonnage, for he continued, with an air of disgust and contempt, "Why, you get flung out of your bunk as likely as not in any sort of heavy weather. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to any one and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions. Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context To gratify Jansenius I waived this objection, and only interfered to save him from being fleeced and fooled by an unnecessary West End middleman, who, as likely as not, would have eventually employed the very man to whom I gave the job. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context More results

References in classic literature

It was not a love of the grandiose or the prestige attached to the command of great tonnage, for he continued, with an air of disgust and contempt, "Why, you get flung out of your bunk as likely as not in any sort of heavy weather.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to any one and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions.

Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context

To gratify Jansenius I waived this objection, and only interfered to save him from being fleeced and fooled by an unnecessary West End middleman, who, as likely as not, would have eventually employed the very man to whom I gave the job.

An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context

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