English @ the Movies: 'Stand A Chance'
source: VOA Learning English 2017年10月6日
Originally published at - https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a...
# stand a chance (of doing something): to have a chance of doing something.
Do you think I stand a chance of winning first place? Everyone stands a chance of catching the disease.
Have a possibility or a hope of success, as in Do you think Mary stands a chance of finishing the marathon? or I think we stand a fair chance of seeing the Queen arrive at Buckingham Palace. This idiom was first recorded in 1796.
(source: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stand+a+chance)
