Mexican standoff
Example Sentences
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It’s an unprecedented state of diffuse inconclusiveness, a Mexican standoff of guns that cannot be loaded, and a battle between empty boats floating past each other in an endless, aimlessly circulating gray sea.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2022
The Wolves’ entire season could turn it into one long 82-game Mexican standoff.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2018
It was a highly enjoyable experience, one that felt unashamedly cult-ish and satisfying—collective cheers and audible gasps were shared during the incredible Mexican standoff that ended the episode.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2013
So when I look back over the long stretch of the intervening decades, I now see those two movies as representing dueling meta-narratives in a postfeminist Mexican standoff.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2011
What they are after instead is what George Georghiou of the University of California at Riverside calls a Mexican standoff, in which insect depredations could be kept small enough to be acceptable economically.
From Time Magazine Archive
