chance one's arm

US pronunciation

American soundchance one's arm

chanceonesarm

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

chance - ones - arm -> chance one's arm

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] (Brit infml ) မအောင်မြင်နိုင် မှန်း၊ မဖြစ်နိုင်မှန်းသိလျက်နှင့် စွန့်လုပ်သည်။

Full entry

chance /tʃɑ:ns; US tʃæns/ n

၁။ ~ of (doing) sth/to do sth/that … [C, U] အခွင့်အလမ်း။ ဖြစ်နိုင်စရာအကြောင်း။ အလား အလာ။
Is there any chance of getting tickets for tonight's performance? ❍ What are the chances of his coming? ❍ She has a good chance/no chance/not much chance/only a slim chance of winning. ❍ What chance of success do we have? ❍ There's a faint chance that you'll find him at home. ❍ There's a million-to-one chance of my getting the job.
၂။ [C] ~ (of doing sth/to do sth) အခွင့်အရေး။ It was the chance she had been waiting for. ❍ You won't get another chance of going there. ❍ Please give me a chance to explain. ❍ You'd be a fool to ignore a chance like that. ❍ This is your big chance (ie your best opportunity of success)! ❍ OCCASION
၃။ [C] စွန့်စားမှု။
This road may not be the right one—but that's a chance we're going to have to take.
၄။ [U] အကြောင်းတိုက်ဆိုင်မှု။ ကံ။ ကံတရား။ Chance plays a big part in many board games. ❍ I met her quite by chance/ by sheer chance (ie accidentally). ❍ It was (pure) chance our meeting in Paris/that we met in Paris. ❍ Since you can't be sure what will happen you must just trust to chance. ❍ It's important that we plan everything carefully and leave nothing to chance. ❍ a game of chance (ie one decided by luck, not skill) ❍ a chance meeting/encounter/occurrence/happening (ie one that was not planned).
၅။ [C] ကံကောင်းထောက်မမှု။
By a happy chance a policeman was passing as I was attacked.
v (usu not in the continuous tenses)
၁။ (infml ) ဖြစ်ချင်ရာ ဖြစ် စွန့်လုပ်သည်။ …ချင်…ပါစေ။ ‘Take an umbrella. ’ ‘No—I'll chance it (ie risk getting wet). ’ ❍ We'll have to chance meeting an enemy patrol.
၂။ (fml ) အမှတ်မ ထင်ဖြစ်သည်။ တိုက်တိုက်ဆိုင်ဆိုင်ဖြစ်သည်။ She chanced to be in/It chanced that she was in when he called.
❏ as chance would have it [IDM ] ကံကောင်းချင်တော့။ အခန့်သင့်ချင်တော့။
As chance would have it he was going to London as well and was able to give me a lift.
❏ by any chance [IDM ] (အထူးသဖြင့်မေးခွန်းတွင်) ဖြစ်နိုင် မည်လား။ Would you by any chance have change for $ 5?
❏ chance one's arm [IDM ] (Brit infml ) မအောင်မြင်နိုင် မှန်း၊ မဖြစ်နိုင်မှန်းသိလျက်နှင့် စွန့်လုပ်သည်။
❏ chance on/upon sb/sth [PHRV ] (fml ) မမျှော်လင့်ဘဲတွေ့ သည်။ မထင်မှတ်ဘဲတွေ့သည်။ Then one day I chanced upon an advertisement in the local paper.
❏ the chances are (that) … [IDM ] (infml ) ဖြစ်နိုင်သည်မှာ။ ဖြစ်နိုင်တာကတော့။ The chances are that she'll be coming.
❏ chance would be a fine thing [IDM ] (infml ) လုပ် တော့လုပ်ချင်ပါရဲ့၊ သို့ပေမဲ့ မလွယ်ပါဘူး။ လုပ်နိုင်ရင်တော့ ကောင်းတာပေါ့။
❏ give sb/sth half a chance [IDM ] အခွင့်အလမ်း နည်းနည်း ရရင်တောင်။ She's very bright and I'm sure she'll succeed given half a chance.
❏ no chance [IDM ] (infml ) ဖြစ်နိုင်ဖွယ်မမြင်။ မမျှော်လင့်နဲ့။ ဝေးပါသေးရဲ့။ ‘Do you think we'll get a ticket for tonight's game?’ ‘No chance!’
❏ on the (off) chance (of doing sth/that…) [IDM ] ကံစွပ်ကံညား။ I didn't think you'd be at home, but I just called on the off chance.
❏ stand a chance (of sth/of doing sth) [IDM ] ဖြစ်နိုင် စရာရှိသည်။ အလားအလာမြင်သည်။ He stands a (good/fair) chance of passing the examination.
❏ take a chance (on sth) [IDM ] မျက်စိမှိတ်လုပ်သည်။ စွန့်လုပ်သည်။ Although rain was forecast we decided to take a chance on it and have the party out of doors.
❏ take a chance/chances [IDM ] စွတ်ရွတ်လုပ်သည်။ You should never take chances when driving a car.
❏ take one's chances [IDM ] အခွင့်အရေးကို အသုံးချတတ် သည်၊ ယူတတ်သည်။ Success in life is often a question of taking one's chances when they come.

More examples

[get/have a chance] : We work together whenever we get a chance.
[the chance to do something] : Participants are given the chance to learn another language.
[chance for] : The meetings are very short, so there is little chance for real discussion.
[blow your chance] : They’ve blown their chance of getting the money back.
[given the chance] : What would you say, given the chance to talk to her again?
[give/offer/provide a chance] : The show provides a chance for the public to look at all the latest software.
[jump at/seize/grab a chance] : Gina got up to leave and Sam, seizing his chance, followed her out.
[a second/another chance] : These players deserve another chance.
[last chance] : I warned her that this was her last chance.
Unemployment is clearly associated with reduced life chances.
The chance of rain is less than 20%.
[a chance of (doing) something] : For the first time in 15 years, they have a realistic chance of winning an election.
[chance (that)] : Is there any chance they will reverse their decision?
[a good/fair/slim chance] : There is now only a slim chance that a recession can be avoided.
[not stand a chance] : He doesn’t stand a chance of winning the tournament.
[a fighting chance] : We still have a fighting chance of beating them if we keep our minds on the game.
[a fifty-fifty chance/an even chance] : He had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation.
The results may simply be due to chance.
[by chance] : It was simply by chance that Nicholson was cast in the film.
[pure/sheer chance] : Pure chance had brought us together that day.

Synonyms

possibility, probability, likelihood, opening, ability, opportunity, option, prospect, occasion, accident, accidental, advantage, adventitious, adventure, arrive, at random, attempt, bad luck, be one's fate, befall, bet, betide, blunder on, break, bump, cast, cast lots, casual, casualty, coincidence, coincidental, come, come about, come off, come to pass, contingency, contingent, craps game, destination, destiny, doom, draw lots, endanger, even chance, fair shake, fall of the cards, fall out, fall to one's lot, fate, fighting chance, fluke, fluky, fortuitous, fortuity, fortunate, fortune, future, gamble, go, go out on a limb, good fortune, good luck, hap, haphazard, happen, happening, happy, have a fling at, hazard, heads or tails, hit, hit upon, in the cards, inadvertent, incidental, indications, jeopardize, jeopardy, kismet, liability, light, light upon, long shot, look-in, lot, lottery, luck, luck out, lucky, lucky break, meet, misfortune, occur, occurrence, odd, odds, offhand, outcome, outlook, peradventure, peril, play with fire, plunge, providence, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, raffle, risk, roll the dice, run the risk, scope, shot, show, skate on thin ice, speculate, speculation, squeak, stake, stick one's neck out, stroke of luck, stumble, stumble on, take shot in the dark, tempt fate, tempt fortune, throw of the dice, time, toss up, toss-up, transpire, try, tumble, turn of the cards, turn up, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned, venture, wager, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune, wildcat

Antonyms

abstain, abstention, aim, assurance, bad luck, certainty, depart, design, designed, disadvantage, fact, foreseeable, law, leave, loss, misfortune, plan, planned, protection, reality, safeguard, safety, scheme, stay, surety, truth, understand, understood, unlikelihood