"not have a prayer" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Implies that not even divine intervention could save the person.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "not have a prayer",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the lights went dark in their flooded compartment, the submariners knew that they did not have a prayer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, John Schwarzwelder, The Simpsons, season 6, episode 14 \"Bart's Comet\", spoken by Reverend Lovejoy (Harry Shearer)",
          "text": "It's all over, people! We don't have a prayer!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have no chance or possibility, usually in the face of peril or adversity."
      ],
      "id": "en-not_have_a_prayer-en-verb-0dttKkR2",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "doomed"
        },
        {
          "word": "hopeless"
        },
        {
          "word": "screwed"
        },
        {
          "word": "up the creek"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "not have a prayer"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Implies that not even divine intervention could save the person.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "not have a prayer",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "doomed"
    },
    {
      "word": "hopeless"
    },
    {
      "word": "screwed"
    },
    {
      "word": "up the creek"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the lights went dark in their flooded compartment, the submariners knew that they did not have a prayer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, John Schwarzwelder, The Simpsons, season 6, episode 14 \"Bart's Comet\", spoken by Reverend Lovejoy (Harry Shearer)",
          "text": "It's all over, people! We don't have a prayer!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have no chance or possibility, usually in the face of peril or adversity."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "not have a prayer"
}