against all odds

English

Prepositional phrase

against all odds

1. (idiomatic) Despite seemingly insurmountable opposition or probability.

   Against all odds the small community college ended up in the NCAA final four.

Translations

despite seemingly insurmountable opposition or probability

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不顧一切地 (cmn), 不顾一切地 (cmn) (búgù yīqiē de), 不計成敗地 (cmn), 不计成败地 (cmn) (bùjì chéng bài de)

• Danish: imod alle odds
• Finnish: vastoin kaikkea todennäköisyyttä (lit. contrary to all probability)
• French: contre tout pronostic, contre toute attente, défendre le dernier carré (fr)
• German: entgegen aller Erwartungen (de)
• Italian: contro ogni previsione

• Korean: 역경을 딛고 (ko) (yeokgyeongeul ditgo)
• Latin: contra totum prognosticum
• Norwegian: mot alle odds (no)
• Russian: вопреки всему (ru) (voprekí vsemú), несмотря ни на что (ru) (nesmotrjá ni na štó)
• Spanish: contra todo pronóstico
• Swedish: mot alla odds