fat chance | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial,sarcastic)Littleornochance, alowornonexistentlikelihoodofoccurrenceorsuccess; a faint chance.Fat chancethat I’ll ever go back to Swansea.1970June 8,Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, inNew York Magazine‎[1]:As soon as the word comes out of your mouth[…]your own servant is going to size you up as one of thoselimousine liberals, or whatever epithet they use, who are busy pouring white soul all over the black movement, and would you do as much for the white lower class, for the domestics of the East Side, for example,fat chance, sahib.

Examples:

EN: We got a fat chance, we have.
ES: Qué grandes oportunidades tenemos. Helena.
EN: Leave me alone, will ya? A fat chance!
ES: Déjame en paz, ¿quieres?
EN: She's got a fat chance of adopting a kid now. Why should she?
ES: Ella no conseguirá adoptar ningún niño.
EN: Fat chance, Uncle Horace, fat chance.
ES: Imposible, tío Horace, imposible.
EN: You've got a fat chance of getting on that boat without a uniform.
ES: No podrás entrar al barco sin uniforme.
EN: With Uncle Cary around, fat chance.
ES: Con el Tio Cary alrededor, es dificil.
EN: A fat chance. You built me up. You, Scoop and the newspapers.
ES: Usted, Scoop y los periódicos me han convertido en una estrella.
EN: - A fat chance we got of doing that.
ES: - No llegaremos nunca.
EN: A fat chance a cop's got to make a pin stick.
ES: Y los policías llevamos ahora placas de madera, ¿no?
EN: Oh, fat chance.
ES: Oh, suerte gorda.
EN: You got a fat chance.
ES: - Lo tienes bastante crudo.
EN: Ha, ha fat chance that's all i want to know.
ES: Es lo que quería saber.
EN: Big fat chance.
ES: ¡Lo tienes mal!
EN: A fat chance. Soft talk to kids. So you ..
ES: Sólo sirves para hablar con los chicos.
EN: You know what fat chance means?
ES: ¿Sabe lo que es una gran oportunidad?

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