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How come fat chance and slim chance both mean the same thing?
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tigeruppercut lemmy.zip tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-08-20
#52 · Quote Reply

You want me to use a 5 syllable word when a 1 syllable word will do? Fat chance!

You can sing the word instead, that's always more fun

https://youtu.be/O_Mc0z8tTCM

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Routhinator startrek.website Routhinator@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-16
#53 · Quote Reply

Full sayings:

  • slim chance
  • fat chance in hell

The "in hell" gets dropped from fat chance making the colloquialism confusing.

This is similar to the "blood is thicker than water" shortening of "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", people who have always heard the first one often use it as an argument for " family sticks together "; when the saying really means the bonds we form of our own choosing are stronger than any presumed by family.

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GeorgimusPrime lemmy.world GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-14
#54 · Quote Reply

Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

Literally means both literally and not literally.

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FreshParsnip lemmy.ca FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-07-02
#55 · Quote Reply

Because fat chance is said sarcastically

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 midwest.social Nemo@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-07-02
#56 · Quote Reply

fat chance is said sarcastically

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