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not have an earthly chance



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Also, stand no earthly chance . Have no chance whatever, as in She doesn't have an earthly chance of getting into medical school , or Bill stands no earthly chance of winning the lottery . The use of no earthly in the sense of “no conceivable” dates from the mid-1700s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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