VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Not Have a Prayer

Meaning:

Have no chance of success

Examples:

  • You do not have a prayer.
  • With the way that the other team has been playing, I'm afraid our guys don't have a prayer.
  • They didn’t have a prayer without a backer for the new company.
  • If you say that someone hasn't got a prayer, you mean that it is impossible for them to succeed in what they are trying to do.
  • She hasn't a prayer of winning the competition.
  • at all this term, so she doesn’t have a prayer of passing her exams.