have an eye for the main chance BrE , auch: have an eye on the main chance

'People who always have an eye for the main chance!

She also has an eye for the main chance.

Being a smart operator, a whizz at public relations and having an eye for the main chance are all very well.

Armand had his detractors, but not even they denied that he'd had an eye for the main chance.

But Graham was a street-smart kid-he grew up around the Krays and their world, and his father was a small-time muscle man-and he had an eye for the main chance.

But as the home of some world-class dealmakers, at least (Basses, Hunts, Richard Rainwater, Boone Pickens), Dallas and neighboring Fort Worth always have an eye for the main chance, however risky.

These small companies were often started by music-industry amateurs - small businessmen, nightclub owners and hustlers, some of whom actually had a genuine ear for music, all of whom had an eye for the main chance.

Magruder would have expected Waring--who always had an eye for the main chance--to back off from another round of foreign intervention, if only to appease the growing numbers of isolationists among the President's noisier critics.

There was a certain entrepreneurial spirit about our man; he seems to have had an eye for the main chance, and at no time more so than in 1854, when he left behind the delights of Hoxton and begun a brief flirtation with the idea of running a lodging house.

He had an eye for the main chance, and informed me that fully one half the cattle making up our herd belonged to Dimmit; that the county line was only a mile up the river, and that if I would allow the herd to drift over into his territory, he would shade the legal rate.