Everyone's heard of "heads or tails?", the traditional invocation for a coin toss. The head is obvious: most government-issued coins, from antiquity to modern times, have borne the bust of some famous ruler …

In expressions like heads and tails, we really are not referring to the literal head or tail on a coin. The symbolism is merely a convenient way of referring to the obverse and reverse sides of the coin. We …

2023年5月13日 · Personally I think heads and tails above [the competition is a kind of "eggcorn" misunderstanding / mishearing of the idiomatic standard head and shoulders above.

The obverse of a coin is commonly called heads, because it often depicts the head of a prominent person, and the reverse tails. In fields of scholarship outside numismatics, the term front is more …

2023年1月17日 · The term used in numismatics appears to be double-sided (heads or tails) coin. They are referred to also as double/two-headed/tailed coins. (Amazon.com) How Much is a Two-Headed …

For one head and three tails, the probability is the same as one tail and three heads. It still sounds awkward to me, as do other usages in the same book, such as: The probability of the first coin giving …

2011年3月26日 · I know giving heads up means to inform someone, but how does that relate to the literal meaning i.e. giving heads up? What's the background? Where did it come from?

2022年4月1日 · 5 They couldn't make heads or tails of it until they flipped it over to read the instructions. not make head or/nor tail of (idiom) variants: or US not make heads or/nor tails (out) of informal To be …

2021年7月18日 · What is the word for words that are 'two sides of the same coin' as they are not always opposites... such as heads and tails. Complement? An example would be ball and strike in baseball. …

2017年10月10日 · An example would be "It flew over everyone's heads", or "It flew over everyone's head". What would be correct in this case and why?