off chance


noun

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How to use off chance in a sentence

  • You and I will wait up there in the hills on the off-chance of picking up some news.

    The Half-Hearted | John Buchan

British Dictionary definitions for off chance

off chance

noun
  1. a slight possibility

  2. on the off chance with the hope: on the off chance of getting the job

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