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come up with snake eyes

come up with snake eyes verb: to fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

Verb

come up with snake eyes (third-person singular simple present comes up with snake eyes, present participle coming up with snake eyes, simple past came up with snake eyes, past participle come up with snake eyes)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

Forms of come up with snake eyes

third-person singular presentcomes up with snake eyes
present participlecoming up with snake eyes
pastcame up with snake eyes
past participlecome up with snake eyes
alternative formcome up snake eyes

Origin of come up with snake eyes

From come up with + snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1, a losing roll in many dice games”).

Questions about come up with snake eyes

What does come up with snake eyes mean?
Come up with snake eyes means to fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.
What part of speech is come up with snake eyes?
Come up with snake eyes is a verb.
What is the past tense of come up with snake eyes?
The past tense of come up with snake eyes is came up with snake eyes.

Words near come up with snake eyes in the dictionary

  1. come up smelling of roses
  2. come up snake eyes
  3. come up to
  4. come up trumps
  5. come up with
  6. come up with snake eyes
  7. come up with the goods
  8. come up with the rations
  9. come upon
  10. come upon the parish
  11. come upon the town

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