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词组 Buckley's chance; Buckley's hope; Buckley's
释义 Buckley's chance; Buckley's hope; Buckley's
noun
no chance at all AUSTRALIA, 1895
Thought to be named after William Buckley, an escaped convict, but the fact that he evaded capture by living with Aboriginals for 32 years would rather imply that Buckley’s chance should be very good. The ironic phrase “You’ve got two chances: Buckley’s and none!” is perhaps punningly connected with the name of a former Melbourne firm “Buckley and Nunn”.
  • That blasted squirt’s capable of doing almost five hundred and twenty, straight and level, we wouldn’t have Buckley’s chance. — W.R. Bennett, Night Intruder, p. 26, 1962
  • — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 19, 1962
  • She had Buckley’s — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 66, 1969
  • Still a man of ambition, he had his eye on the Chief Judgeship of the High Court itself, but Buckley’s hope, if he only realised it[.] — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, 1971
  • — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 35, 1972
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