No chance

Definition

chance /tʃɑ:ns; US tʃæns/ n ၁။ ~ of (doing) sth/to do sth/that … [C, U] အခြင့္အလမ္း။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္စရာအေၾကာင္း။ 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) အခြင့္အေရး။ 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] စြန္႔စားမႈ။ This road may not be the right one—but that's a chance we're going to have to take. ၄။ [U] အေၾကာင္းတိုက္ဆိုင္မႈ။ 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] ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မမႈ။ By a happy chance a policeman was passing as I was attacked. v (usu not in the continuous tenses) ၁။ ( infml ) ျဖစ္ခ်င္ရာ ျဖစ္ စြန္႔လုပ္သည္။ …ခ်င္…ပါေစ။ ‘Take an umbrella. ’ ‘No—I'll chance it (ie risk getting wet). ’ ❍ We'll have to chance meeting an enemy patrol. ၂။ ( fml ) အမွတ္မ ထင္ျဖစ္သည္။ တိုက္တိုက္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ျဖစ္သည္။ She chanced to be in/It chanced that she was in when he called. ❏ as chance would have it [ IDM ] ကံေကာင္းခ်င္ေတာ့။ အခန္႔သင့္ခ်င္ေတာ့။ As chance would have it he was going to London as well and was able to give me a lift. ❏ by any chance [ IDM ] (အထူးသျဖင့္ေမးခြန္းတြင္) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ မည္လား။ Would you by any chance have change for $ 5? ❏ chance one's arm [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) မေအာင္ျမင္ႏိုင္ မွန္း၊ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္မွန္းသိလ်က္ႏွင့္ စြန္႔လုပ္သည္။ ❏ chance on/upon sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ဘဲေတြ႕ သည္။ မထင္မွတ္ဘဲေတြ႕သည္။ Then one day I chanced upon an advertisement in the local paper. ❏ the chances are (that) … [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္မွာ။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာကေတာ့။ The chances are that she'll be coming. ❏ chance would be a fine thing [ IDM ] ( infml ) လုပ္ ေတာ့လုပ္ခ်င္ပါရဲ႕၊ သို႔ေပမဲ့ မလြယ္ပါဘူး။ လုပ္ႏိုင္ရင္ေတာ့ ေကာင္းတာေပါ့။ ❏ give sb/sth half a chance [ IDM ] အခြင့္အလမ္း နည္းနည္း ရရင္ေတာင္။ She's very bright and I'm sure she'll succeed given half a chance. ❏ no chance [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္မျမင္။ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္နဲ႔။ ေဝးပါေသးရဲ႕။ ‘Do you think we'll get a ticket for tonight's game?’ ‘No chance!’ ❏ on the (off) chance (of doing sth/that…) [ IDM ] ကံစြပ္ကံညား။ 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 ] ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ စရာရိွသည္။ အလားအလာျမင္သည္။ He stands a (good/fair) chance of passing the examination. ❏ take a chance (on sth) [ IDM ] မ်က္စိမိွတ္လုပ္သည္။ စြန္႔လုပ္သည္။ Although rain was forecast we decided to take a chance on it and have the party out of doors. ❏ take a chance/chances [ IDM ] စြတ္ရြတ္လုပ္သည္။ You should never take chances when driving a car. ❏ take one's chances [ IDM ] အခြင့္အေရးကို အသံုးခ်တတ္ သည္၊ ယူတတ္သည္။ Success in life is often a question of taking one's chances when they come.

Examples

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