toss of a coin

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Each set of stories ran at the start of one of two consecutive weeks, determined by the toss of a coin.

From Economist • Nov. 8, 2017

For an impression of how life could be reduced like that to the edge of subsistence, you don't need arithmetic: it's you, on the toss of a coin.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2014

But for the toss of a coin, it could have been called Packard-Hewlett.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2014

In 1968 only the toss of a coin denied them a place in a third final.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

"Ay; an' from that day to this never a question atween us we couldn' settle by the toss of a coin."

From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir