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have a fighting chance

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to have a reasonable likelihood. The Socialist Party has a fighting chance to win control of the French government.

Usage notes: often used in the form not have a fighting chance: If they don't like the way you perform in practice, you don't have a fighting chance of getting into a game.

Related vocabulary: level the playing field

See also: chance, fight

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Yet for school board challengers to have a fighting chance against UTLA-bankrolled candidates, they need massive amounts of cash of their own. EDITORIAL MONEY TALKS SPECIAL-INTEREST CASH FUELS LAUSD REFORM BATTLE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Reiner believes her fudge will have a fighting chance against the swelling batch of entrants. Fudge fantasies by Brown, Rachel / Los Angeles Business Journal Kuykendall believes that public school leaders must try to influence legislation on both the state and federal fronts if schools are to have a fighting chance to meet the immense challenge of educating children for the next century. Exercising His Political Muscles by School Administrator More results

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Yet for school board challengers to have a fighting chance against UTLA-bankrolled candidates, they need massive amounts of cash of their own.

EDITORIAL MONEY TALKS SPECIAL-INTEREST CASH FUELS LAUSD REFORM BATTLE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Reiner believes her fudge will have a fighting chance against the swelling batch of entrants.

Fudge fantasies by Brown, Rachel / Los Angeles Business Journal

Kuykendall believes that public school leaders must try to influence legislation on both the state and federal fronts if schools are to have a fighting chance to meet the immense challenge of educating children for the next century.

Exercising His Political Muscles by School Administrator

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