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buckley's chance

Buckley's chance
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Definitions of buckley's chance words

  • noun buckley's chance no chance at all 3
  • noun buckley's chance no chance at all or only a slim hope. 1
  • noun buckley's chance (Informal) (Australia, idiomatic) A very small chance; no chance at all. 0

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Origin of buckley's chance

First appearance:

before 1870
One of the 26% newest English words
First recorded in 1870-75; origin obscure

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Parts of speech for Buckley's chance

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

buckley's chance popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 1% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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