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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very slim chance.

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  • A very slim chance, indeed.

    Dogs' relationships with fortune—good and ill—are mixed. A lucky dog is genuinely lucky, but a dog's chance is a poor one. Why would a dog's chances be poor? Perhaps this is related to living a dog's life, which, despite the relative pamperedness of pets, is considered miserable. Or maybe it is simply that dogs, as the subordinate species, will always come out on the bottom: subordinate, never really the top dog in human society.

    July 11, 2009