by any chance en · ADP
Meanings
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Used to ask a question more politely
Are you by any chance looking for a new staff member?
You wouldn't like to come, by any chance?
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, any, chance.
A perai itself, if wounded by any chance, is at once attacked and devoured by its fellows.
1895, Charles Conrad Abbott, Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Natural History, page 599:
Synonyms
perchance · perhaps · by chance · possibly
Translations (18)
el τυχόν (possibly; perhaps) · fr par hasard (possibly; perhaps) · ms agak-agaknya (possibly; perhaps) · ru случайно (possibly; perhaps) · fi sattumalta (possibly; perhaps) · fi sattumoisin (possibly; perhaps) · cmn 萬一 /万一 (possibly; perhaps) · cmn 也許 /也许 (possibly; perhaps) · fr à tout hasard (possibly; perhaps) · de vielleicht (possibly; perhaps) · uk часом (possibly; perhaps) · pt por acaso (possibly; perhaps) · ms kalau boleh (possibly; perhaps) · es por algún casual (possibly; perhaps) · hu esetleg (possibly; perhaps) · pt por algum acaso (possibly; perhaps) · pl przypadkiem (possibly; perhaps) · ms agaknya (possibly; perhaps)