Are Beating the Odds?

: to succeed despite not having a good chance of succeeding Most new restaurants fail, but this one somehow managed to beat the odds.

Do against the odds?

If you do or achieve something against (all) the odds/against all odds, you do or achieve it although there were a lot of problems and you were not likely to succeed: Against all the odds, he recovered.

When to use what are the odds?

"what are the odds" is synonymous with "what are the chances". Both phrases can be used somewhat rhetorically (i.e., not a genuine question, but a question the person feels he or she knows the answer to). Essentially, it can mean "Do you really think it will happen?" or "Don't you think it will happen?"