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- noun idiomatic, offensive No chance;
zero possibility ; a high or almost certainrisk of death or failure.
Etymologies
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Originally a reference to the socio-economic prospects of immigrant Chinese labour in the United States in the 19th century, which often involved highly dangerous work on the railroads
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