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flip of the coin
noun as in shot in the dark
noun as in sporting chance
Example Sentences
“The playoffs in baseball are tough, and in a short series, a five-game series, it’s always a flip of the coin,” Justin Turner said.
It’s really a flip of the coin between these and Sony’s 1000XM3 headphones in the eyes of many.
What‘s the privacy advantage? If a person states a preference for Scarecrow, then that might have resulted just from a flip of the coin. Note also that the coin is just one way to introduce chance. Another might be to ask a participant to think of his or her best friend and to answer “Scarecrow” if that best friend’s age were odd and honestly if even.
Imagine that there are two envelopes, marked A and B. Before you are shown the envelopes, a flip of the coin determined which envelope has money in it.
It’s really a flip of the coin between these and Sony’s 1000XM3 headphones in the eyes of many.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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