roulette wheel
Noun
Meaning
game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
As an example, consider a roulette wheel that has landed on red in three consecutive spins.
An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796.