The Chinaman's chance

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领导说她每天都在学英语,最近看波洛侦探系列,很多旧式英语说法,昨天就教我啥是: A Chinaman's Chance.

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Chinaman's chance is an American idiom first attested in 1903[1] meaning little or no chance at all, possibly as a reference to historical anti-Asian racism in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaman%27s_chance

至此,看完 wikipedia解释,大叔无话可说而觉得哽咽