the main chance

What makes the difference is having an eye for the main chance.

It seemed as if everybody had his eye on the main chance.

But he has also an eye for what Americans call the main chance.

Everyone knows you as a man with his eye on the main chance.

For the first time in years I stopped thinking of the main chance.

But you're wide of the mark when you say it's all the main chance.

But this is a man who always has an eye for the main chance.

Never said much, but you could tell he was taking it all in, looking for the main chance.

He has the air of an operator, an eye for the main chance.

Even Lee, much as she loved him, always had an eye on the main chance.

Every child deserves the main chance that I was given.

He was not a boy to miss the main chance, old Willie.

You always had a keen eye for the main chance.

It's a kind thought, but we'll have to stick to the main chance.

They're smart and quick, with an eye for the main chance.

Just a kid, with a bit of ambition and an eye to the main chance.

His eyes were peeled for the main chance - but where was it?

Nearly three-quarters of children say that school is the main chance they have to play with their friends.

Now, like everybody in Shanghai, it seems, they have an eye for the main chance.

'You've had your eye on the main chance from the very beginning, haven't you?

But they'd had an eye for the main chance.

Their eyes were on the door of the Main Chance.

A fish with an eye to the main chance.

Sybil had her eye on the main chance, and so have a lot of other women over the years.

Meaning you weren't just after the main chance, however you could get it.