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Buckley's chance
Little or no chance; a forlorn hope.
In a sentence
You’ve got Buckley’s chance of finding a taxi in this rain.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre gives Australian evidence from 1887 and reviews competing origin explanations.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established