Synonyms for toss-up

Grammar : Noun

Spell : taws, tos

Phonetic Transcription : tɔs, tɒs

Définition of toss-up

Origin : c.1500, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Norwegian tossa "to strew, spread"). Related: Tossed; tossing. Food preparation sense (with reference to salad, etc.) is recorded from 1723. The noun meaning "an act of throwing" is first recorded 1650s. Tosspot "heavy drinker" is from 1560s. Toss-up "even matter" first recorded 1809, from earlier sense of "a flipping of a coin to arrive at a decision" (c.1700). Tosser as a term of contempt in British slang is recorded from 1977, probably from slang toss off "masturbate" (1969); cf. jerk (n.).

noun even chance

Example sentences :

You are never to mention this episode of the toss-up, or of my confession, to any living soul.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

That leaves it a toss-up between Toby Jucklin and Bandy-legs!
Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie

Off the stage this is more or less of a toss-up; on the stage, never.
Extract from : « They and I » by Jerome K. Jerome

It may be a toss-up which of us may die first, but this will be our last meeting.
Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope

It was a toss-up between "Annie Rooney" and "Oft in the stilly night."
Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller

So far as that was concerned, it might be a toss-up which of them was first “put to the knife.”
Extract from : « The Boy Hunters » by Captain Mayne Reid

He'll have two stools; three hens, an' a toss-up for the cock.
Extract from : « Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories » by William Carleton

It is a toss-up whether there is to be any happiness in the venture.
Extract from : « Queensland Cousins » by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

It's a toss-up whether that charter takes precedence or not.
Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm

It was just a toss-up that a good deal of my own wasn't in, one way or another.'
Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing

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