two-handed game

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Noun[edit]

two-handed game (plural two-handed games)

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) A game or proposal in which the chances are fairly even; a situation where one will get as good as one gives.
    • 1849, Masonic Signet and Literary Mirror, volume 1, page 379:
      "Mr. Pillow, Sir, none of your impertinence, or I will chastise you as well as this fellow." "That's a two handed game, by thunder," said Long Tom, " […] I dare you to deadly combat. […] "
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two-handed,‎ game. (a game for two players)

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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