snowflake's chance in hell
Utterly doomed prospect
No chance at all.
The phrase pictures a snowflake surviving in hell's fires—an impossibility.
Almost always appears in the negative: He doesn't have a snowflake's chance in hell of winning that case.
Sometimes shortened to snowball's chance in hell, with the same meaning.
- long shotUnlikely to succeed
- one in a millionExtraordinarily rare or special
- when pigs flyExpressing utter impossibility
- chasing rainbowsPursuing unrealistic goals
- mission impossibleUnachievable objective
freezing point · over my dead body · no way · against all odds · inferno · needle in a haystack · wild goose chase · heaven and hell · day and night · black and white · fire and ice · oil and water · hot and cold · yin and yang · pipe dream · pie in the sky · frostbite · life and death
snowflake's chance in hellsure thing
Guaranteed outcome or agreement
certainty · slam dunk · dead cert · guaranteed · foregone conclusion
snowflake's chance in hellinevitable
Certain to occur
written in stone · bound to happen · can't miss · when hell freezes over
chance, snowflake, snowed, snowing, flakes, flaked, flaking, chances, chanced