| 单词 | heads i win, tails you lose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheads I win, (and) tails you lose (c) heads I win, (and) tails you lose: I win whatever happens. Also similarly heads you win, (and) tails I lose, heads I win, tails I win, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > I win whatever happens heads I win, (and) tails you lose1728 1728 G. Vane 2nd Ess. Catholick-relig. 151 Makes him play at Fools-game (even at Heads I win, and Tails you loose) with his Wealth and Substance. 1789 World 19 Dec. It was impossible any man in his senses could enter into a contract upon the former interpretation; that would be following the old maxim, ‘Heads, I win—Tails, you lose.’ 1832 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 302 They would play the toss up with the creditor on the terms ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’. 1858 Calcutta Rev. June 369 Between the Indian public and the Indian Government, it is invariably the old one-sided game of ‘heads we win, tails you lose’. 1918 D. Haig Diary 15 July in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 430 This is a case of ‘heads you win, and tails I lose’! If things go well, the Government take credit to themselves and the Generalissimo: if badly, the Field Marshal will be blamed! 1958 Times 17 Oct. 17/1 The heads-I-win, tails-you-lose sort of argument between the conscious and the unconscious. 1991 Stanford Law Rev. 43 784 Whenever it is appropriate for courts to consider extrinsic evidence in interpreting standard form policy language, it normally should be a ‘heads I win tails I win’ matter for the insured. 1999 Vanity Fair May 124/3 The profit margin is excellent... Heads I win, tails you lose! < as lemmas |
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