fighting chance, being hollered and screamed at

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Horowitz' approach was much the same studying with Ivan Davis, and I am so glad, because instead of being hollered and screamed at, it was very constructive and geared to your individuality.

holler

/ˈhɒlə/

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INFORMAL

verb

1. give a loud shout or cry.

   "he hollers when he wants feeding"

   Similar:

   shout

   yell

   cry

   cry out

   call

   call out

   roar

   howl

   bellow

   bawl

   bark

   shriek

   scream

   screech

   bay

   wail

   whoop

   boom

   thunder

   raise one's voice

   call at the top of one's voice

   vociferate

   Opposite:

   whisper

noun

1. a loud cry or shout.

   "the audience responded with whoops and hollers"

When you holler, you yell a little too loudly and abruptly. ... Holler is an informal verb, useful for those times you call out or shout. Your teacher might holler at the class if she gets angry enough, and you might holler at your sister to get out of your room at least once a day.

A Fighting Chance
There was still a way to keep the Horizon from sinking. Chris Pleasant saw it first.
Mr. Pleasant was one of the supervisors responsible for the blowout preventer. With the main deck on fire, he ran for the bridge with one thought: they needed to disconnect the rig from the blowout preventer — and therefore from the well itself. That would cut off the fire’s main source of fuel and give the Horizon a fighting chance.
He just needed to activate the emergency disconnect system. Like a fighter pilot hitting eject, it would signal the blowout preventer to release the Horizon. It would also signal it to seal the well, perhaps stopping the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
“I’m hitting E.D.S.,” he told the captain.
Witnesses differ about what happened next. But they agree on a basic point: even with the Horizon burning, powerless and gutted by explosions, there was still resistance to the strongest possible measure that might save the rig.
According to Mr. Pleasant, the captain told him, “No, calm down, we’re not hitting E.D.S.”
Mr. Bertone, the chief engineer, recalled someone hollering that they needed Jimmy Harrell’s approval.
As it happened, Mr. Harrell had finally made it to the bridge despite being half-blinded by insulation and gas. Ms. Fleytas recalled the captain asking Mr. Harrell’s permission to hit the emergency disconnect. Mr. Harrell said he told Mr. Pleasant to go ahead.


fighting chance

A possibility of winning, but only with a struggle. For example, It's going to be hard to beat that record, but I think he has a fighting chance. [Late 1800s]