Idiom
fat chance
Meaning
Little or no chance, a low or nonexistent likelihood of occurrence or success; a faint chance.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You think he will help you? Fat chance.”
“I asked my boss for a month off during our busiest season, but he gave me a fat chance.”
“Given the company's current financial instability, there is a fat chance that the employees will receive their promised bonuses this year.”
Examples
simple
“You think he will help you? Fat chance.”
contextual
“I asked my boss for a month off during our busiest season, but he gave me a fat chance.”
complex
“Given the company's current financial instability, there is a fat chance that the employees will receive their promised bonuses this year.”
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