"Chinaman's chance" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a reference to the socio-economic prospects of immigrant Chinese labour in the United States in the 19th century, which often involved highly dangerous work on the railroads.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinamen's chances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 103:",
          "text": "And if I weren’t here now, Driscoll and Ann wouldn’t have a Chinaman’s chance.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 29, Richard Corliss, “Anna May Wong Did It Right”, in Time:",
          "text": "The Chinese, who in the mid-19th century had come to America by the tens of thousands and helped build the transcontinental railway, were on the receiving end of much prejudicial legislation. . . . In the slang wisdom of the day, sojourners from the Middle Kingdom \"didn't stand a Chinaman's chance.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "No chance; zero possibility."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinaman's_chance-en-noun-cN3SeBTN",
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          "possibility",
          "possibility"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, offensive) No chance; zero possibility."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Chinaman's chance in Hell"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "offensive"
      ],
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        "Chinaman's chance"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "Chinaman's chance"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a reference to the socio-economic prospects of immigrant Chinese labour in the United States in the 19th century, which often involved highly dangerous work on the railroads.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinamen's chances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 103:",
          "text": "And if I weren’t here now, Driscoll and Ann wouldn’t have a Chinaman’s chance.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 29, Richard Corliss, “Anna May Wong Did It Right”, in Time:",
          "text": "The Chinese, who in the mid-19th century had come to America by the tens of thousands and helped build the transcontinental railway, were on the receiving end of much prejudicial legislation. . . . In the slang wisdom of the day, sojourners from the Middle Kingdom \"didn't stand a Chinaman's chance.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "No chance; zero possibility."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "possibility",
          "possibility"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, offensive) No chance; zero possibility."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "offensive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Chinaman's chance"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Chinaman's chance in Hell"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinaman's chance"
}