main chance
an opportunity offering the greatest gain: Being ambitious, he always had an eye for the main chance.
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How to use main chance in a sentence
The owner gratifies his taste or his pride by reserving it from cultivation, but he does not forget the main chance.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe main chance with her seemed to lie in the likelihood that she would find a mother (or a father) in Aunt Maria.
Overland | John William De ForestThe big people, the men who run things, they had no such illusions; they had their eye on the main chance all the time.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. SinclairI agree with you, but we should probably differ about what constitutes the main chance.
Evenings at Donaldson Manor | Maria J. McIntoshHis ethics are of the Poor Richard school, and the main chance which calls forth all his energy is altogether of the belly.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of Education
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