three-legged race

Knowing how closely divided we are, our atomized wisdom adds up vote by vote to a hobble for both parties — binds them in an endless three-legged race, rather than risk winner-take-all.

The two men navigated the terrain in a way that some observers compared to a three-legged race.

Burns described Iran’s challenge as “a three-legged race” to obtain fissile material, to “weaponize” by placing such material into a device designed to cause a nuclear explosion, and to mate it to a delivery system such as a ballistic missile.

At the 1992 Town Picnic in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the three-legged race was won for the first time by a single person.

From afar, it looks like a three-legged race.