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What (who) is off-chance - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Chance (movie); Chance!; Chance (disambiguation); Chanced; Chance! (disambiguation); Chance (song); Chance! (song); Chance (album); Chance (novel); Chance (film)
off-chance
also off chance
If you do something on the off-chance, you do it because you hope that it will succeed, although you think that this is unlikely.
He had taken a flight to Paris on the off-chance that he might be able to meet Francesca.
PHRASE: PHR after v, oft PHR that, PHR of n/-ing
Edgar Chance
BUSINESSMAN, ORNITHOLOGIST AND OOLOGIST
Edgar P. Chance; Edgar Percival Chance
Edgar Percival Chance (1881–1955) was a British businessman, ornithologist and oologist who amassed a collection of 25,000 birds' eggs.NHM picture library He is noted for his pioneering studies on the parasitic breeding behaviour of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus).
Examples of use of off-chance
1. In other words, there was far more than an "off–chance" of conflict.
2. It was just on the off-chance wed end up having a conflict.
3. It was just on the off–chance we‘d end up having a conflict.
4. In other words, there was far more than an "off-chance" of conflict.
5. This was a ‘one off chance‘ for the NHS to prove itself, he said.