Question
There wasn’t (A)/a snowball’s chance in heaven
(B)/that the team would win, (C)/but they played extraordinarily in the last moment (D). No error (E) Directions: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
The correct idiom is ‘a snowball’s chance in hell’. It means ‘no chance at all’. There wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that the team would win, but they played extraordinarily at the last moment.
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