0 a small but real possibility that something can be done:
1 a small but real possibility of success:
Those principles, which give the accused a fighting chance or more than that, would not be affected at all by relaxing the double jeopardy rule.
Tonight we have at least a fighting chance.
Kirkpatrick would later write that he believed the report cost him a fighting chance at the directorship.
Giving students a fighting chance: pragmatics in the language classroom.
We must give dairy farmers a fighting chance to survive.
If the coal industry is to be subjected to market forces, it should at least be given a fighting chance in a fair market.
The miners thought it would come along and that they would have a fighting chance to do something.
Let him have a fighting chance of obtaining results.