Idiom
what are the odds
Meaning
Used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We met in a tiny village; what are the odds?”
“I ran into my old teacher at the airport in another country, so I asked, what are the odds?”
“Finding two identical copies of such a rare, out-of-print book in the same shop makes one wonder, what are the odds?”
Examples
simple
“We met in a tiny village; what are the odds?”
contextual
“I ran into my old teacher at the airport in another country, so I asked, what are the odds?”
complex
“Finding two identical copies of such a rare, out-of-print book in the same shop makes one wonder, what are the odds?”
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