snowballs chance
Doomed from start
A snowball's chance refers to the odds of success when those odds are essentially zero—from the image of a snowball in hell, which would melt instantly.
Usually appears in the full phrase a snowball's chance in hell: He doesn't have a snowball's chance of winning that election.
Sometimes shortened: Fat chance. Snowball's chance.
- slimThin or meager
- unlikelyNot apt to happen
- impossibleIncapable of occurring
- no wayEmphatic denial
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
longshot · long odds · hail mary · prayer · remote · doomed · dead in the water · melt · ice cube · futile · wishful thinking · pipe dream · when pigs fly · improbable · zero · none · lost cause · fool's errand
- Unlikelyunlikely, improbable, doubtful, dubious, remote
- Weather Idiomsunder the weather, when it rains it pours, come rain or shine, rain check, take a rain check
snowballs chancesure thing
Guaranteed outcome or agreement
certainty · foregone conclusion · slam dunk · guaranteed · lock
snowballs chancein the bag
Certain to succeed
absolute certainty · money in the bank · take it to the bank · written in stone · open and shut case
snowball, snow, ball, snows, snowy, snowier, snowiest, snowfall, snowflake