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Old 04-Jul-2005, 10:15
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Landrum Shettles was forging ahead on work similar to Edwards and Steptoe's, in New York, in quarters just as cramped as theirs, his odds against success just as long.

I don't understand the meaning of the last sentence...
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Default Re: odds against success
In this context odds means chance of success and long odds means unliklihood of success. This expression comes from gambling, where the odds of winning a coin toss are 1 in 2 (even odds) and the odds of winning a lottery are 1 to 1 million (long odds).
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