Related Clues:

• Marathon record broken by nationalist's leader
• Like unlikely odds
• Next to nothing, as a chance
• Lanky cowpoke’s moniker
• Second opening for lecturer? I’m not promising
• Apt rhyme for "trim"
• Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack
• Like improbable chances
• Fallen tree trunk around northern pine
• Slender in build
• Man in field badly wants a pee
• Not short, line concerning head of government
• "___ story short ..."
• Like Jack Sprat, one would expect
• "To make a __ story short ... "