off chance
Americannoun
noun
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a slight possibility
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with the hope
on the off chance of getting the job
Example Sentences
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But on the off chance that your palm pattern means something more?
From Literature
Her own plain dress she left behind on the rack, on the off chance there might one day be a ballet about governesses.
From Literature
There was no reason anyone needed to know, for example, that Ben had bought a small farm in the country, north of San Francisco, in a remote place without road access, planted with fruit and vegetables sufficient to feed his family, on the off chance of the end of the world as we know it.
From Literature
It was clearly from someone she knew, although she had no idea it was her friend Yevgeny Merkis who had scrawled the message on the off chance she might see it.
From BBC
And above all, blessed because he was paired with a player whom he considers as good a person as he is a pitcher, the kind of high-character individual for whom he would wear radiant underwear in the off chance it could improve his fortune.
From Los Angeles Times
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