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单词 a million to one
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a million to one
P1. a million to one: a million chances to one; a very low probability; (occasionally in odds-on sense) a very high probability. Also millions to one. Frequently attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > remote chance
a hundred to one1647
a million to one1678
long odds1764
long shot1796
off-chance1844
long chance1854
outside chance1867
a fat chance1892
to have a Chinaman's chance1915
1678 T. Shadwell Hist. Timon iii. 38 'Tis a million to one There was villany in the getting of that dirt.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 158 It was a Million to one odds, that ever he could have been relieved.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. ix. 94 Calculate it fairly..and it will turn out a million to one, that..the forceps should have the ill luck just to fall upon..that one part.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Let. 3 May–21 June (1966) III. 299 It is above a Million to one that this will be the event.
1856 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 99 He..showed that the chances were millions to one, that these were not arbitrary accidental phenomena, but due to some particular cause.
1873 E. F. Burr Pater Mundi 185 All these inferences from the Law Scheme are of the million-to-one class.
1900 C. H. Chambers Tyranny of Tears i. 9 The article hasn't a million to one chance of being finished this afternoon.
1937 H. C. Bailey Clunk's Claimant xlvi. 315 A million to one some side-line of a next of kin would bob up and pinch their share.
1962 P. Brickhill Deadline v. 78 So I'm supposed to..roam Paris for weeks on the million-to-one chance of spotting someone.
1976 D. Francis In Frame xii. 172 The chances of anyone seeing its significance in ordinary circumstances were millions to one against.
1982 J. Wain Young Shoulders i. 18 We all know that human error does exist, and so do unpredictable weather conditions and million-to-one chances generally.
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