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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Choose the sentence that uses "rent" correctly.

No one wanted to rent the run-down house on the corner.

His rent was so loud that people the next block over could hear it.

I had rent the apartment from an eccentric old lady.

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With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.
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At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?
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Do those things," he said, "and you'll have half a chance of being successful.
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My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
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If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
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They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.
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Life is represented as struggling to free herself from the gross earthly forms that cling to her.
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And if an earthly father would act thus wisely and thus kindly, "how much more your Father which is in Heaven?"
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Instead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."
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