whistle for
chanceless
unambitious
slim chance
ambitionless
fat chance
not have a prayer
West plea
Hail Mary pass
fall through
to no avail
unanswering
done
unprofiting
swing and a miss
earthly
unpersuasible
no-hoper
fall back
passivity
hopeless
back the wrong horse
excuselessness
draw a blank
on a losing wicket
game
if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time
Buckley's chance
cannon fodder
push shit uphill
unpromising
bleakly
undecided
one strike and you're out
unpursuable
reluctantly
a dumb priest never got a parish
hesitantly
Hail Mary
backwardness
underambitious
ambitionlessness
hopelessly
lose
strike out
back to the wall
whistle in the wind
monkeys might fly out of my butt
promiselessness
successlessness
false dawn
defeat
unreluctance
dud
hold out
unhopeful
washout
Vietnam
dither
licking
flop
adviceless
nondecision
to little avail
in a pinch
futureless
underchallenge
at a pinch
velleity
short
shot
break down
nonappealable
in vain
black
unsuccess
bleak
take the count
one-way ticket
no fear
unsatisfied
no-goal
responseless
dim
roll of the dice
dry hole
unmeeting
not worth the powder
successlessly
undemandingly
underwhelming
roll the dice
Chinaman's chance
fighting chance
peradventure
scrape the bottom of the barrel