词汇 | heads i win tails you lose |
词源 | heads I win, tails you lose. Partridge calls this “a mock bet,” also meaning “I can’t lose,” and dates it back to 1846, although he claims it was anticipated by the phrase “Cross I win, Pils you lose” quoted in G. L. Apperson’s English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1926. |
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