| 词汇 | dead heat |
| 词源 | dead heat. Any contest—from an election to a horse race— that ends in a tie is called a dead heat. The expression was first used in British horseracing in the 1790s. As used here, heat means “a single course of a race,” while dead suggests that the horses are “dead even,” or completely even. A dead heat is a rar- ity in this age of electronic timing. |
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