Usually means: Highly unlikely to succeed, win.
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  1. long odds: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. long odds: Merriam-Webster
  3. long-odds: Wordnik
  4. Long Odds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Long Odds: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. long odds: Wiktionary

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  1. long odds: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (long odds)

noun:  (idiomatic) poor chances; unlikeliness, improbability

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