VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Stand a chance

Meaning:

- to have a possibility of succeeding, even if a remote one - to be possible to be able to do something - to have a hope of success - to have a possibility or a hope of success

Examples:

Do you believe that you stand a chance of getting that job?

His team doesn’t stand a chance of taking the title.

I think you should try for a date with her, if you think you stand a chance.

With this traffic, we don’t stand a chance of getting there before dark.

If funding by the government is withdrawn, small minority schools in the remote northern area, don’t stand a chance.