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do sth on the off chance to do sth even though you think that there is only a small possibility of it being successful:
She scanned the crowd on the off chance of seeing someone she knew. * I called in at the office on the off chance that you would still be there.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of off chance come from?
This entry for off chance is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is off chance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, off chance is tagged as noun.
Does off chance appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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