slim to none

idiom

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

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But their hopes of being truly competitive this season seem just about slim to none. Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025 Rain chances over metro Phoenix are slim to none, as the monsoon continues to steer clear of the region. Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 5 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 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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