Fancy your chances tests you on ellipsis, or omission of words.
As with many other languages, speakers of English quite often leave out words ~ most usually off the front or back of their sentences ~ where the circumstances are clear without those words, and/or perhaps urgent.
'Fancy your chances?' = '[Do you] think you are likely to do well?'
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There is a clue in the 'you' within the original Question.
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In the likely circumstances of such a question, the speaker would be looking at the person spoken-to, so the 'you' would be almost superfluous.
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'Thinks' is in the 3rd person singular, so its preceding subject must be 'he' / 'she' / 'it'. In the context, and from the later repetition, the missing word must be 'he'.
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Ellipsis like this would only work if the speaker is describing their own experience.
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'It' will be hopeless; though 'you' would also make sense here. We suspect that the 'it' version would be a bit more diplomatic; otherwise you are adding to the person's frustrations by emphasising that they are wasting their time. The indirect (or unspoken) version is probably preferable.
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The full instruction would be 'be careful' (likewise 'be quiet', etc.).
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'There is ...' is such a 'throwaway' phrase (and like all true idioms, it makes very little sense whatever if you try to take it apart word-by-word) ~ that it is very often left off completely in situations like this, so as to move straight to the topic in hand.
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The classic, laconic admission of failure!
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The word in front of the noun (microwave) would have had to be an adjective: possessive (e.g. 'our', 'your') or demonstrative ('this', 'that'); so only one of the Answers offered will work here.
'On the blink' is a slightly old-fashioned expression, though still heard at least occasionally, meaning that a ~ usually, electric ~ machine is either not functioning at all, or only intermittently (i.e. any lights on it may only be blinking on and off, rather than shining constantly). |
The speaker is leaving out his/her personal pronoun, as it should be obvious (from the situation, and by elimination) that they are speaking on their own behalf.
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