coin toss
Noun
Meaning
A particular instance where a coin is launched in the air, and whichever side that it lands on finalises a decision.
Australia won the coin toss and chose to bat first.
(figuratively) An uncertain selection between two outcomes of similar likelihood, or between two objects of similar quality.
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Examples
In American culture the coin toss is the paradigm of the random event. A coin toss decides who kicks off the Super Bowl. Looked at another way, a coin toss is not random at all. It is physics.
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.