take one's chances

1. Accept the risks, resign oneself to whatever happens, as in I've no idea whether this scheme will work; I'll just take my chances. [Early 1300s]

Example Sentences

When it comes to take one’s chances with a stranger, we may be better off keeping our expectations reasonably pragmatic ...instead of plunging into the wilderness with our hearts exposed.

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“As I look back on my long and arduous struggle to make myself over,” Mr. Hitchens wrote, “and on my dismaying recent glimpses of lost babyhood, I am more than ever sure that it’s enough to be born once, and to take one’s chances, and to grow old disgracefully.”

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Sometimes it's fine to take one's chances.

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I think as you do, that it's better to do some fighting, and take one's chances of being killed by a bullet rather than by camp fever.

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"One must take one's chances!" he said.

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