on the off chance

: from a place or position

: at a distance in space or time

: from a course : aside

used as a function word to indicate physical separation or distance from a position of rest, attachment, or union

: to seaward of

: from the possession or charge of

: seaward

: right

: more removed or distant

: to go away : depart

: kill, murder

: competition : contest

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

: the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck

: the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence : contingency

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

: to have the good or bad luck

: to come or light by chance