"fighting chance" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fighting chances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fighting chance (plural fighting chances)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This essential medicine will give him a fighting chance against the disease."
        },
        {
          "text": "I don't have a fighting chance to hand this article in on time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable."
      ],
      "id": "en-fighting_chance-en-noun-ZWPpeA-2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "機會"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jīhuì",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "机会"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kěnéng",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "可能"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xīwàng",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "希望"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "mahdollisuus taistella"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "no fighting chance",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
          "word": "ei mitään mahdollisuutta"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fighting chance"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fighting chances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "fighting chance (plural fighting chances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This essential medicine will give him a fighting chance against the disease."
        },
        {
          "text": "I don't have a fighting chance to hand this article in on time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A chance that is dependent on success in a struggle, with the implication that such success is not unattainable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "機會"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jīhuì",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "机会"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kěnéng",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "可能"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xīwàng",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "希望"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "mahdollisuus taistella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "no fighting chance",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chance that is dependent on success in a struggle",
      "word": "ei mitään mahdollisuutta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fighting chance"
}