chance it

Idioms  

1. Take the risk or hazard of, as in I don't know if there's a later bus but let's chance it. The verb to chance alone was so used for a time, as in Let's just chance the rain—I'm not buying a new umbrella! [Late 1800s] Also see take a chance.

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Example Sentences

Like The Wheels of Chance, it depicts cycling in its formative years, but as a series of comic vignettes.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2010

He came to no deliberate decision; at that moment he was completely unbalanced in body and mind, but a voice inside him said suddenly: "Chance it!"

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

And that if she had any mysterious business at La Chance it was something fishy about Dudley's gold!

From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.

"Let's go and see, anyway," said I. "Chance it?"

From At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. by Hargrave, John

Christianity has been called "The Gospel of the Second Chance"; it is more than that.

From In His Image by Bryan, William Jennings

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