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chance'd be a fine thing
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An ellipsis of even having a chance [to do so / at that] would be a fine thing and similar ideas, in reference to something that is either completely impossible or currently forbidden by circumstances, higher authorities, etc., originally chiefly with regard to opportunities to have sex or get married.
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- (Britain, idiomatic) Synonym of no chance or fat chance with a somewhat more cheerful attitude.
- 1912, Stanley Houghton, Hindle Wakes, Act I, Scene i:
- 2009 September 18, Jesse Armstrong & al., Peep Show, Season 6, Episode 1:
- Come on. You're management, Corrigan. Get it sorted.
Right. Chance would be a fine thing. [VO] That's a thing people say, isn't it...
Mark, can't you reset it?
Chance would be a fine thing, Lisa.
I know what you should do. Coffee run. Corrigan, 200 lattes.
Good, good one Jeff. Chance would be a fine thing, a fine thing indeed. [VO] Hmm. Saying that too often now.
- Come on. You're management, Corrigan. Get it sorted.
- 2012 September 23, Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 3, Episode 2:
参照
- Allen, Robert. "chance", Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases, Penguin, 2006.
- Partridge, Eric, "chance(s)", A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, 4th ed., Routledge, 2005, p. 359.
- “chance would be a fine thing” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “chance would be a fine thing”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “chance would be a fine thing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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