LONG ODDS

Literature

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Chance 2

Probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.

Danger

Verb: be in danger; Adjective:; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger; Noun: run a risk; lay oneself open to; (liability); lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place.

Difficulty

Adverb: with difficulty, with much ado; barely, hardly; Adjective: uphill; against the stream, against the grain; d rebours; invita Minerva; in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds, against long odds.

Improbability

Noun: improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility.

Crosswords: LONG ODDS

Long Odds (1922)

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Periodicals

• High Hopes Long Odds (reference)

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A swell smoker--giving long odds. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "LONG ODDS": against long odds ♦ at long odds ♦ by long odds. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏إحتمال حفيف. (various references)

French

faible chance. (various references)

Hebrew 

סכוי קלוש (long shot). (various references)

Hungarian

nagyok az esélyek (it is long odds that, the odds are that), küzd (combat, contest, fray, militate, strive, struggle, to battle, to combat, to contend, to contest, to fight against great odds, to fight against odds, to fight agaisnt long odds, to struggle, to war, to wrestle, wrestle), hogy (according to all indications, allowing for, and not, as, as everyone knows, as long as, at the expense of sg, by all appearances, don't you dare, except for, gin, have a way with him, have the good sense to, have the luck to, have the sense to, he'll come I'll be bound, his behaviour up to till now shows that, his one thought is, how, how are things?, how are you?, how can I tell that he will do it?, how is it that, how odd that, I bethought that, I came to realize that, I can't get it out of my head that, I have a fancy that, I have a hunch that, I have come to believe that, I have heard it said, I have heard tell, if, I'll bet anything that, I'll bet you that, in spite of that, in such a way as to, in the hope that, in what way, it costs me to tell you, it does not follow that, it does not necessarily follow that, it irks me to, it is a common experience that, it is as much as saying that, it is clear that, it is easy for you to say, it is hardly to be expected that, it is known to all that, it is long odds that, it is many a long day since, it is not for nothing that, it never entered my head that, it's a good job that, it's getting on for two months since, it's late in the day to, it's rather late in the day to, like, little did I dream that, matters are at such a point that, meseems that, more by token, on the chance that, on the stipulation that, on the supposition that, on the understanding that, people say that, please let me know whether, purposely, saving that, sith, such as, supposing, that, that is easy to see, the best of the business is that, the chances are that, the fact is, the gimmick is that, the idea came across my mind that, the idea occured him that, the idea smote him that, the long and short of it, the long and the short, the merry jest was, the odds are that, there is a story that, there is a whisper that, there is much to be said for, there is no call to, they say that, this is to certify that, this is what is known as, this points to the fact that, this should not be taken to mean that, thus much is certain that, to adopt measures to, to all appearances, to be all afire with the desire to, to be all agog to, to be entitled to say that, to be fain to do sg, to be in honour bound to, to be no evidence o, to be of the opinion that, to be on the point of doing sg, to be on the very edge of, to be out to, to be passionately eager to, to be said to, to be under the necessity of, to be unwitting that, to cherish the hope that, to claim that, to concede that, to conceit oneself that, to crane one's neck to see sg, to dare sy to do sg, to debar sy from doing sg, to descend to doing sy, to dread falling ill, to dread to fall ill, to feel it necessary to, to find a means to, to find a way to do sg, to flatter oneself that, to give sy to believe that, to go through the motions of sg, to hint to sy that, to hit upon the idea of sg, to hold that, to kid sy that, to know better than to, to lay it down as a principle that, to lay odds of three to one that, to lay that, to maintain that, to make every endeavour to, to make it a matter of conscience to, to make it a point of honour to, to make it a rule, to make shift, to persuade oneself that, to reflect that, to serve the purpose of, to set one's wits to work to, to show one's cards, to start out to, to start with, to such a pitch that, to suffer sg to be done, to take measures to, to take pains to do sg, to the end that, to think it proper to, what), hátrányos helyzetben küzd (to fight against great odds, to fight against odds, to fight agaisnt long odds), erős ellenféllel szemben (to fight against great odds, to fight against odds, to fight agaisnt long odds), egyenlőtlen fegyverekkel küzd (to fight against great odds, to fight against odds, to fight agaisnt long odds). (various references)

Manx

corrillagh trome (long price). (various references)

Pig Latin

onglay oddsay

Russian 

неравные шансы, большое неравенство ставок. (various references)

Turkish

sürpriz olarak (against long odds), kat kat (by long odds, far and away, in layers, laminal, laminar, laminated, multiplex), beklenenin aksine (against long odds), büyük bir farkla (by long odds). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: godson.

-3 letters: dodos, dongs, golds, goods, goons, logos, longs, loons, nolos, snood, snool, soldo, solon.

-4 letters: dodo, dogs, dols, dong, dons, gods, gold, good, goon, goos, logo, logs, long, loon, loos, nods, nogs, nolo, odds, olds, slog, snog, sold, solo, song, soon.

-5 letters: dog, dol, don, dos, god, goo, gos, log, loo, nod, nog.

+2 letters: goldenrods.

+4 letters: dendrologies, dendrologist, roadholdings.

+5 letters: dendrologists.