Chinaman's chance

At least not one that would give us even a Chinaman's chance.

"He won't have a Chinaman's chance of making it if you don't turn on the heat."

Listen," he said, "we haven't a Chinaman's chance of getting in the front door.

We don't have a Chinaman's chance of ever getting out of this thing.

We didn't have a Chinaman's chance in a Japanese heaven.

The Chinaman's chance originated from the middle of the 19th century, potentially from several events.

And without that five hundred dollars I haven't a Chinaman's chance of saving the ranch.

Chinaman's chance, a figure of speech meaning little or no chance

Don't try to get that bird to give up baseball, because they ain't a Chinaman's chance of that!

You think there's a Chinaman's chance of repairing York's sailboat?

Which means I don't stand a Chinaman's chance.

And I don't suppose there's a Chinaman's chance of catching 'em again that same way.

But with bandits we've not even a Chinaman's chance in the hands of Chinese highwaymen.

Moreover, a derogatory term that developed in the frontier West was "Chinaman's chance."

Chinaman's chance means little or no chance at all, freighted with a particularly anti-Asian racism.

Nobody knows Mr. Bush and he hasn't a Chinaman's chance.

Not a Chinaman's chance," said Cal with finality. "

He hasn't got a Chinaman's chance.

Therefore, the phrase a "A Chinaman's Chance" may have been coined in this context.

/ I haven't got a chinaman's chance.

What I mean," Stevenson presses on, "is that no one connected with the administration has a Chinaman's chance.

The original phrase was that one had only a Chinaman's Chance in Hell, but it morphed through usage into its current state.

A Chinaman's chance.

But no - to be honest, I don't think you've got a Chinaman's chance ... not with all that outfit against you.

A Jew and a gentile ain't got a Chinaman's chance.")