Heads I win, tails you lose In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "heads I win, tails you lose", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Jenne Phuong calendar 2021-06-10 02:06

Meaning of Heads I win, tails you lose

Heads I win, tails you lose humorous

  Used to say that no matter what happens, I will win 

He was so arrogant that he supposed it was a heads-I-win-tails-you lose case. At last, he had to beg for help from his father.

Flipping a coin is my forte. Heads I win, tails you lose.

Other phrases about:

May the best man win

The expression is used at the beginning of a competition to say that you hope the most fastest, strongest, or most  skilled succeed person 

wins.

to win by a nose

To win only by a smaill amount; to win narrowly

anyone's game

A game in which all sides have potential to win

snatch victory (from the jaws of defeat)
To win even though one is certain to lose
win (something) in a walk

Win something easily, or with less or no effort

Origin of Heads I win, tails you lose

The phrase "heads I win (and) tails you lose" is first recorded in The Second Essay on the Catholick-religion: Viz. On Its Suppression and the Substitution of Heathenism, or Idolatry (London: Printed for John Worrall, 1728), by Guy Vane—as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary (online edition, March 2021).

The Origin Cited: wordhistories.net .
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