MAIN CHANCE

Definition: MAIN CHANCE

MAIN CHANCE

1. See under Chance .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Caution

Think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see how the land lies; (foresight); wait to see how the cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter; (prepare); let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort.

Chance 2

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

Economy

Save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.

Foresight

Anticipate; expect; be beforehand; (early); predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout; (vigilance); forewarn.

Good

Noun: good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest.

Importance

Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points.

Selfishness

Verb: be selfish; Adjective: please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell.

Skill

Look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer; (cunning); play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse.

The Main Chance (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "MAIN CHANCE": eye to the main chance ♦ have an eye to the main chance ♦ look after the main chance ♦ the main chance. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

личните цели. (various references)

Hungarian

mindenben a maga hasznát lesi (have an eye to the main chance). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainmay ancechay

Romanian

ocazie de câştig (the main chance). (various references)

Swedish

födgeni (eye to the main chance). (various references)

Turkish

menfaat (advantage, benefit, expedience, expediency, profit, stake, the main chance, use), kişisel çıkar (self interest, the main chance). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: chainman, chainmen, mechanic.

-3 letters: anaemic, chicane, enchain, macchia, macchie, machine.

-4 letters: anemia, anemic, caiman, cancan, cancha, canine, cannie, chacma, chaine, chance, chemic, cinema, encina, haemic, haemin, iceman, manche, maniac.

-5 letters: acmic, aecia, amain, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anima, anime, cache, caeca, canna, chain, chime, china, chine, cinch, hance, hemic, hemin, henna, inane, mache, mania.

+1 letter: mechanician.

+2 letters: mechanicians.

+3 letters: nonmechanical.