fancy one's chances

English

Pronunciation
  • Audio (AU)(file)

Verb

fancy one's chances (third-person singular simple present fancies one's chances, present participle fancying one's chances, simple past and past participle fancied one's chances)

  1. (idiomatic) To believe that one has a good chance of success.
    • 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian‎, London:
      Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.