even chance
even odds
fighting chance
make-or-break
premortem
calculated risk
in vain
another nail in someone's coffin
unlikely
go nowhere
wish
fancy one's chances
fail
failingness
odds-on
turn up trumps
no-win situation
fair chance
second
opportunity
sporting chance
unpropitiousness
fat chance
inauspiciousness
snowball's chance in hell
game over
long odds
take on water
not win for losing
go down in flames
fall on one's face
joy
lose
mis-
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
improbability
beat the odds
unsuccessful
earthly
go wrong
lay an egg
nonsuccess
work out
shit the bed
fat tail
beef
one strike and you're out
fall flat on one's face
sleeper
unsuccessiveness
fluke
bomb out
miss
slim chance
lay eggs
winnability
be riding for a fall
fortunate
random
peradventure
go out
go down the toilet
fall down
statistical significance
epic fail
die on the vine
aleatoric
be careful what you wish for
chance
gronk
strike out looking
fight a losing battle
flopdom
live by the sword, die by the sword
twilight
flat out
fortuitous
bomb
come up from behind
sink or swim
casual
go phut
hit
foolproof
attempted
blow
incidental
washout
dumb luck
flame out
only
ride one's luck
strike out
lose one's way
dead duck
go to the wall
unlikelihood
nonfailure