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Toss-up   /tɔs-əp/   Listen
Toss-up

noun
1.
An unpredictable phenomenon.  Synonyms: even chance, tossup.






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"Toss-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... The bijouterie seemed to reproach him with unkindness for having placed a mistress over them, and the easy chair heaved as though with suppressed emotion, at the thought that its luxurious proportions had lost their charms. Collumpsion held a mental toss-up whether he repented of the change in his condition; and, as faithful historians, we are compelled to state that it was only the entrance, at that particular moment, of Juliana, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... me,' cried John, 'and so it ought to seem to you, you dog.' And then he pushed Tom down into the easiest chair, and clapped him on the back so heartily, and so like his old self in their old bedroom at old Pecksniff's that it was a toss-up with Tom Pinch whether he should laugh or cry. Laughter won it; and they all ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens



Words linked to "Toss-up" :   even chance, chance, luck, fortune, hazard



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