fancy one's chances

verb

To believe that one has a good chance of success.

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Meanings

verbfancy one's chances (third-person singular simple present fancies one's chances, present participle fancying one's chances, simple past and past participle fancied one's chances)

present singular third person fancies one's chances · participle present fancying one's chances · participle past fancied one's chances · past fancied one's chances

  1. idiomaticTo believe that one has a good chance of success.

    Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final.

    2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London
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