Hi Elise,
Thats was me. I know I tend to use more colloquial expressions when emailing
because otherwise email is such a dry way of communicating.. no infections
of voice or facial expressions etc.  Anyway here's your definition.

"The term "You've got Buckley's chance" refers to an escaped convict named
Buckley. The story goes that in colonial times, he and two others escaped a
penal colony (near Sydney I think) and shot over the Blue Mountains. The
authorities gave chase but eventually gave up looking for them (some
versions of this story say they gave up after encountering hostile
aborigines). They figured the escapees would either starve to death or be
killed by locals. And two of them did. The only one to survive and stumble
out of the bush (years?) later was Buckley. Thus, "Buckley's chance" means a
slim chance... not no chance.  "

So when I said that someone hadn't Buckley's it meant that they did not even
have that slim chance.

Karleen Gribble
Australia

> In return...was it Renate or someone else from Australia who said, if I
> remember correctly, that someone "hadn't a
> buckleys"...something.  ?????  Any Australians care to share on that one?

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