The chances of dogs are slim.
Fred has no chance of winning the game. There is little chance that Fred will win the game.
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It's unlikely.
China people have little chance.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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It's not without a chance.
Australian slang: Buckley's opportunity is hopeless _ English Sky
1788 65438+1On October 26th, a fleet led by Captain Philip escorted 770 prisoners to Australia for the first time. From then on, a new British colony was born. For a country dubbed "a country created by prisoners", many Australian phrases come from their "prisoner" ancestors, such as our phrase today: Buckley's chance.
Buckley refers to a man named william buckley (William? Buckley's exile, when he was exiled to Philip Harbor (now Melbourne), a desolate place in Australia. The life of exiles can be imagined. Despite the lack of food, they are constantly attacked by diseases. On the verge of death, Buckley finally escaped from Phillip Harbor and survived in his hometown, now southern Victoria.
For william buckley who regained his vitality, his greatest success was to end the inhuman exile. But in the eyes of ordinary people, this success is negligible, and no one wants to get such a "successful" opportunity like Buckley. Over time, Buckley's opportunity (Buckley's opportunity to escape from exile) became synonymous with "no chance or little hope".
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"A slim chance" means a slim hope.
"fresh graduates" and "fat vacancies"
"Fresh graduates" refer to those college students who have just graduated. This is a new word I saw on the news channel Social Records today.
Still on the news channel, I saw another new word in a news, "Fat Opportunity". Fat means fat, large capacity and so on, while "fat opportunity" means that there is little chance and little hope.
Universities are getting fatter and fatter, fresh graduates are getting fatter and fatter, and job hunting is getting fatter and fatter.
Recently, the news channel also has a regular program "* * * with concern", focusing on those children who have been admitted to college but have no money to go to college because of their poor family. These children face a "slim chance" of going to college.
Hunger and hyperthyroidism can make people thin, but they are essentially different. The same is true of the "fat opportunity" caused by poverty and the "fat opportunity" caused by "fat". The former deserves sympathy, and the latter is morbid!
I wonder if these children will feel sad when they see the "fat shortage" of "fresh graduates" facing employment.
-will they still be so eager to go to college?