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against all odds
Idioms and Phrases
In spite of seeming very unlikely, as in Against all odds we had a snowstorm in early May , or Against all odds the slower team won . This transfer of a betting term to general usage occurred about 1900.Example Sentences
Will this acrid-tongued, 69-year-old multimillionaire, a child of the rural Catholic haute bourgeoisie — he was raised in the house his mother’s family built in 1752 — turn out, against all odds, to be the statesman the world needs now, ideology and partisan affiliation aside?
The evolution of the toilet is a success story that, against all odds, has brought us an efficient, affordable, and high-performing consumer good.
“Not only are sweeps disruptive to the unhoused people who have created community, mutual support, and neighborliness along the Arroyo against all odds, they are also an obscene waste of city resources, and they accomplish nothing,” Gustafson wrote.
In a community built against all odds, Black residents now face their biggest challenge yet: How to rebuild.
And yet, against all odds and in the teeth of a Merseyside blizzard, United showed all the qualities Amorim claimed they had been missing to deliver the finest performance of his short reign to earn a 2-2 draw.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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