not give much for sb's chances
Definition
› to not believe someone will succeed: I wouldn't give much for his chances in the next race.Not hopeful
(Definition of not give much for sb's chances from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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not get over sth idiom
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not get/go anywhere idiom
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not give a monkey's idiom
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not give a shit idiom
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not give a tinker's cuss idiom
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
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not give tuppence for sth idiom
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not give/budge/move an inch idiom
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not give/care a damn idiom
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not give/care a toss idiom
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not go much on sth idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- bleak adjective
- defeatist adjective
- dejected adjective
- despair verb
- dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)
- downcast adjective (UNHAPPY)
- downhearted adjective
- forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
- gloom noun (WITHOUT HOPE)
- gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- glum adjective
- grim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- hopeless adjective
- negativism noun
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism noun
- pessimistic adjective
- prophet of doom idiom
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Not hopeful
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