fancy one's chances
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fancy 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)
- (idiomatic) To believe that one has a good chance of success.
- 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian[1], London:
- Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final.