toss-up

See also: tossup and toss up

English

Deverbal from toss up.

toss-up (plural toss-ups)

(idiomatic) A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.
It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.
Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
- 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian‎:
  No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick from October.
The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.

a decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter

either of two outcomes that are equally likely

the toss of a coin used to decide some issue

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