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分享一个知识点： Reader question: Please explain “fat chance”, as in this passage – Jane is pretty and popular. You will have a fat chance of getting a date with her. My comments: It means your chances of dating Jane are slim. In fact, they’re slimmer than slim. Because you see, had they were been slim, whoever gave you this advice would’ve said so – your chances of getting a date with Jane are slim. The good thing is, that way you’ll at least have a chance, though small. “Fat chance”, on the other hand, is totally negative. It means no chance at all – just in the same way that “thin argument does a fat lot of good” means it does no good at all. Anyways, don’t believe this person who gave you the advice from above. It’s terrible counsel. It’s disheartening. Ignore him. He doesn’t appear to know about girls who are “pretty and popular”. Girls who are pretty and popular, you see, tend to date lots of people, including all sorts of jerks and halfwits – you think I’m joking, I know. Look at it this way: If you belong to the kind of people Jane dates – which I, always being encouraging, think you do – the chances of her dating you is good. So therefore, simply take a good look at yourself in the mirror and take heart. For now, forget about Jane, and read these media examples of “fat chance”: | 
