| 释义 |
throw of the diceA risky attempt to do or achieve something: a struggling actor giving it a last throw of the dice as he stages a self-financed production of Hamlet...- It is very, very tight and we know we've just got one throw of the dice.
- ‘The stakes are too high and our future too important to be gambled on a reckless throw of the dice,’ he said.
- His appointment as coach in July last year, once seen as a desperate throw of the dice, looks an ever more shrewd choice.
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