slim chance
Hardly any hope
A slim chance is a small probability of something happening—not impossible, but unlikely: There's a slim chance the flight will be on time.
The phrase often appears when acknowledging remote possibilities: We have a slim chance of winning, but we're not giving up.
- unlikelyNot apt to happen
- long shotUnlikely to succeed
- longshotUnlikely to succeed
- remoteDistant or controller
- improbableNot likely true
doubtful · outside · snowball · prayer · hope · gamble · risk · odds · against all odds · lottery · miracle · wishful · pie in the sky · pipe dream · faint · thin · narrow · one in a million
- opportunitygolden opportunity, window of opportunity, opportunity knocks, once in a lifetime, big break
- certaintycertain, sure, uncertain, unsure, definite
- Possibilitymaybe, perhaps, possibly, could, might
- Unlikelyunlikely, improbable, doubtful, dubious, remote
- long shotslong shot, longshot, long odds, dark horse, underdog
- wishful thinkingif only, what if, one day, fingers crossed, with any luck