tilt the balance/scales
also tip the balance/scalesIf something tilts the balance, it is the thing that causes a particular situation to happen or a particular decision to be made when other situations or decisions are possible:
This might just tilt the balance in the government's favour.
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Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- come to sth
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
- toss
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Affecting and influencing