"Two men against one defenseless woman seems like lousy odds for me."

"That's lousy odds."

"Sure, they're lousy odds, no question," Charlie Hu said, nodding and keeping a serious note.

One last glance backwards, before the bend hid it and he saw three men running for the police van three men and the driver, that was lousy odds.

Marley was down to one good limb, lousy odds for any four-legged beast.

Phelan decided that if he had to fight for his ship against such lousy odds, he was glad these two lunatics were on his side.

We didn't expect anybody but the captain's father to play at such lousy odds.

Did I, with the arrogance of a cigarette smoker, just assume I would be the one to beat the statistics, to live - or, in my case, give life - in defiance of the increasingly lousy odds?

Working on their own initiative and against lousy odds, determined to express themselves and to keep memory alive, they spent countless thousands of hours conceiving, drafting, revising and explaining their visions.

Seven to two was lousy odds.