Usually means: Slim likelihood of occurrence, sarcastically.
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  1. fat chance: Vocabulary.com
  2. fat chance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. fat chance: Wiktionary
  4. fat chance: Dictionary.com
  5. Fat Chance (album), Fat Chance (film), Fat Chance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. fat chance: Rhymezone
  7. fat chance: FreeDictionary.org
  8. fat chance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. fat chance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. fat chance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Fat chance, fat chance: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fat chance: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fat chance (!): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. fat chance: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic, colloquial, sarcastic) Little or no chance, a low or nonexistent likelihood of occurrence or success.

Similar:
dog's chance, long odds, a fat lot, cat in hell's chance, long shot, Chinaman's chance, Buckley's chance, lightweight, fat lot of good, chancelessness, more...

Adjectives:
chance, needfull, needy, needly, needful, chancy, happenchance, necessary, nay, worst-case, wis

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Similar:
dog's chance, long odds, a fat lot, cat in hell's chance, long shot, Chinaman's chance, Buckley's chance, lightweight, fat lot of good, chancelessness, more...

Adjectives:
chance, needfull, needy, needly, needful, chancy, happenchance, necessary, nay, worst-case, wis



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