slim to none

idiom

: almost none
"What are their chances of winning?" "Slim to none."

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Rain chances across the area are slim to none, with less than a 10% chance through Sunday. Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2025 The possibility of appeal was slim to none, with a board of PCA directors making the call, not fellow filmmakers. Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025 Sean Reardon, an education professor at Stanford University, says the move could set the United States’ education system back to the 1990s or earlier, when comparable data collection was slim to none. Jackie Valley, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025 Bar for passing constitutional amendment is high If Ogles is serious and his resolution gains some momentum, the chances of this likely highly controversial amendment, or even less controversial ones, passing seem slim to none. Jared Gans, The Hill, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slim to none

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“Slim to none.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slim%20to%20none. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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