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| chance; hazard; cast; prospect; pot luck; a sporting chance (of success); shot (you had a shot at a real career – у тебя были все шансы на успешную карьеру Scooper); odds; orts | |||
| opportunity | |||
| crack | |||
| crack (capissimo) | |||
| cast of the die | |||
| fortune | |||
| lucky strike (Lavrin) | |||
| foot in the door (выбиться в люди, зацепиться за хорошую работу и т.п.: Don't mess this up, remember, this is your foot in the door. 4uzhoj) | |||
| look-in; potluck; break; sniff (He has never had a sniff of a government job in his entire twenty years in parliament. VLZ_58) | |||
| bly (Adrax) | |||
| innings; occasion; resource | |||
| flyer; prayer (всегда в отриц. смысле); stab; squeak; go; whack | |||
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| odds; look-out; chances (есть большие шансы что – there're good chances that Баян); long odds | |||
| fortunes; openings | |||
| equal odds | |||
| odds (Отношение вероятности того, что событие произойдёт, к вероятности того, что событие не произойдёт. На практике вычисляется как отношение частот произошедшего события к не произошедшему событию. Natalya Rovina) | |||
| goodwill; self-generated goodwill | |||
| odd | |||
| the odds are 1 to 10 in favor of success (against success) | |||
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| cut | |||
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| break (Interex) | |||
| шанс: 1046 phrases in 66 subjects |
| Advertising | 2 |
| American usage, not spelling | 19 |
| Astronautics | 6 |
| Australian | 14 |
| Aviation | 1 |
| Aviation medicine | 1 |
| Basketball | 3 |
| British usage, not spelling | 3 |
| Business | 8 |
| Card games | 4 |
| Chess | 45 |
| Cliche / convention | 1 |
| Clinical trial | 3 |
| Computer games | 5 |
| Computers | 2 |
| Construction | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 12 |
| Econometrics | 2 |
| Economy | 5 |
| Electronics | 1 |
| Emphatic | 2 |
| European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 2 |
| Figurative | 3 |
| Figure of speech | 2 |
| Finances | 1 |
| Football | 2 |
| Gambling | 3 |
| General | 453 |
| Genetics | 1 |
| Geology | 2 |
| Horse racing | 7 |
| Ice hockey | 2 |
| Idiomatic | 31 |
| Informal | 31 |
| Insurance | 1 |
| Ironical | 1 |
| Law | 1 |
| Linguistics | 1 |
| Makarov | 170 |
| Mass media | 21 |
| Mathematics | 6 |
| Medical | 3 |
| Military | 19 |
| Nanotechnology | 2 |
| Nuclear and fusion power | 1 |
| Oilfields | 1 |
| Pharmacy and pharmacology | 1 |
| Politics | 10 |
| Production | 2 |
| Programming | 45 |
| Proper and figurative | 1 |
| Quotes and aphorisms | 2 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |
| Sarcastical | 1 |
| Saying | 1 |
| Scientific | 4 |
| Security systems | 1 |
| Seismology | 1 |
| Show business | 1 |
| Slang | 35 |
| Sociology | 1 |
| Sports | 16 |
| Statistics | 7 |
| Trade unions | 1 |
| United States | 2 |
| Vulgar | 6 |