词汇 | fifty-fifty-chance |
释义 | a fifty-fifty chanceidiom a result is equally likely to happen or not happen: There’s only a fifty-fifty chance that she’ll survive the operation. Examples of a fifty-fifty chancea fifty-fifty chance After all, if a weighing machine is faulty there is afifty-fiftychance that it will be faulty in the customer's favour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they are 45 or over, they have afifty-fiftychance of being out of work for at least a year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is afifty-fiftychance that it may yet take mankind over the precipice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When they are caught and fight the case in court by pleading not guilty, there is afifty-fiftychance of acquittal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that with them he might believe that he had afifty-fiftychance of being absolved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A criminal who commits a robbery has afifty-fiftychance of being discovered and convicted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is only afifty-fiftychance of getting over the food problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the company has afifty-fiftychance of success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The child of an affected parent will have afifty-fiftychance and many parents will conceive before diagnosis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thus, as late entrants, we have in my view no more than afifty-fiftychance of success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The disease is a dominantly inherited genetic disorder, which means that each child of an affected parent will have afifty-fiftychance of inheriting the disease. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thus, each time, the price had afifty-fiftychance of closing higher or lower than the previous day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Aged 18, following a knee injury he had a cartilage removed and was given only afifty-fiftychance of resuming his playing career. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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