The cutting edge of all this can be mind-boggling: as well as being an unlikely Work Programme provider, for example, the security firm G4S is about to sign a contract to run a privatised police station in Lincolnshire.
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's opera "Le Roi et le Fermier" ("The King and the Farmer"), with its exploration of class issues and caricature of aristocrats, might seem an unlikely work for Marie Antoinette and her courtiers to have performed at Versailles in 1780.
In her latest film, The I ntern, Robert De Niro plays Ben, an unlikely work-experience placement at a New York fashion website run by Anne Hathaway's character, Jules – a hard-working woman, who is married and has a small daughter.
He now turns his attention to a seemingly unlikely work: this farcical operetta by Offenbach about a Peruvian street singer who triangulates between her true love and a Spanish official.
However, instrument models of this nature unlikely work due to enormous intrainstrument variations of musical sounds.
On the night, some astonishing prices were paid for unlikely works.
The audience undergoes that impossible-dream sensation by hoping against hope that an unlikely love will work, while knowing that it cannot.
At the same time, he added, "it was an unlikely thing to work, because the scrutiny of prime time is hard on sketch comedy".
The third and fourth programs of this year's Fall for Dance Festival at City Center continued to prove an unlikely axiom: adventurous work, in the right context, can excite as much enthusiasm as the most populist offerings.
On one wall, for example, linear structure and materialist assertion holds together an unlikely set of works by David Hockney, Jean Dubuffet and Franz Kline; on the opposite wall, by contrast, Surrealist and Symbolist works by Max Ernst, René Magritte and Marc Chagall offer illusory fantasies of alternate realities.
A special called "live scallop" consisted of alternating thin slices of scallop, radish and kiwi, an unlikely trio that worked, served with a spicy salad containing scallop muscle (much tastier than it sounds).
