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like someone's chances

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Definition of like someone's chances

: to think someone has a good chance (of succeeding or winning)
  • "How do you think the team will do this year?" "I like their chances."

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someone play

  1. : some person : somebody

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chance play chances

  1. : something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause

  2. : the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck

  3. : the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence : contingency

  1. : to take place, come about, or turn out by chance : happen

  2. : to have the good or bad luck

  3. : to come or light by chance

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