toss-up

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Related to toss-up: try out, fall off, call on, outlined, in favor, overhyped, scrutinised

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Noun

toss-up - an unpredictable phenomenon; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose"

fortune, hazard, luck, chance - an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"

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toss-up

[ˈtɒsʌp] N we'll settle it by a toss-up → nos lo jugaremos or lo echaremos a cara o cruz
it was a toss-up between me and him → la cosa estaba entre él y yo (al cincuenta por ciento)
it's a toss-up whether I go or stay → no me decido si irme o quedarme

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

toss-up

n (lit) → Knobeln nt → durch Münzenwerfen; it was a toss-up whether … (inf) → es war völlig offen, ob …

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

toss-up

[ˈtɒsˌʌp] n (fig) (fam) it was a toss-up who would get there first → avevano tutti le stesse probabilità di arrivare per primo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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