fat chance

1. 1.

   little or no chance of success

   Synonymsslim chance

   Broaderprobability

Questions about fat chance

What does fat chance mean?

fat chance means "little or no chance of success".

What is another word for fat chance?

Close synonyms include slim chance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fat chance a common word?

fat chance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.