Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Off-chance
subs. phr. (colloquial).—A doubtful hazard.
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1880. N. GOULD, The Double Event, 105. He didn’t think Caloola would win, but he took £50 to £5 on the OFF CHANCE, ‘just to have an interest in the brute,’ he said.
