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lady or tiger

lady or tiger noun: a pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.

Noun

lady or tiger

  1. (idiomatic) A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.

Origin of lady or tiger

From the short story The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton, in which a condemned man is offered two doors, one of which leads to a beautiful woman and the other to a ferocious tiger.

Questions about lady or tiger

What does lady or tiger mean?
Lady or tiger means a pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.
What part of speech is lady or tiger?
Lady or tiger is a noun.

Words near lady or tiger in the dictionary

  1. lady of light virtue
  2. lady of pleasure
  3. lady of the evening
  4. lady of the house
  5. lady of the night
  6. lady or tiger
  7. lady palm
  8. lady palms
  9. lady paramount
  10. lady parts
  11. Lady Presidentress

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