See take one's chance on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2010, February 28, Alice Park, The Men’s Figure-Skating Fracas, Time (retrieved 29 Dec. 2022)",
"text": "Lysacek opted not to take his chances with the risky move."
}
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"To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
],
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"(idiomatic) To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "ottaa riski"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "koettaa onneaan"
},
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"roman": "parabéllomai",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "παραβέλλομαι"
},
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"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
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"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
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"word": "zaryzykować"
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"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "jugársela"
}
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}
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}
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],
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],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "ottaa riski"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "koettaa onneaan"
},
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"roman": "parabéllomai",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "παραβέλλομαι"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ryzykować"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "zaryzykować"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to act in a manner dependent on luck",
"word": "jugársela"
}
],
"word": "take one's chance"
}
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