Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic A game in which people guess which side of a coin will be face up after it is tossed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, or stake,
head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), andtail the other side.
Examples
“It was my day for encounters I couldn't make heads or tails of, and that included my hair-bobbing data.”
“Preston couldn’t make heads or tails of Robillard’s reactions.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘heads or tails’.
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or else
idioms built around 'or': vain or and/or vein ore
make or break, all or nothing, by hook or by crook, more or less, life or death, double or nothing, sooner or later, do or die, for love or money, feast or famine, trick or treat, sink or swim and 8 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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