heads or tails
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The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Measuring the wave function, however, causes it to collapse, mathematically speaking, such that the system in our example shows up as either heads or tails.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
If you can make heads or tails out what he's trying to say there, good luck to you.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023
There are only two choices: heads or tails.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
