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Take a chance

verb

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome. Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take chances.

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"Take a chance" Quotes from Famous Books

... "You'll have to take a chance on that, of course," Charlie Sands said. "I'm not sure it will be safe, but I am sure ...

— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... grinned the Irishman, utterly ignoring the young editor; "but you didn't give him no references, and I wouldn't take a chance." ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... up, chief," he called through a tube to the engineer. "We'll get forty feet down until the mosquitoes get by. I'd like to take a chance at them but there are too ...

— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... I should drink to that or not," Broderick ruminated, smiling. "May get after me. I'll take a chance, though. King's straight. I can always get on with a straight man." He raised ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

... "I'll take a chance, if you will," said Corliss, now assuming, as Fadeaway had intended, the role of leader in the ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

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