English Explanatory Dictionary

come up with snake eyes

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

Word forms

come up with snake eyes comes up with snake eyes coming up with snake eyes came up with snake eyes come up snake eyes

Etymology

From come up with + snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1, a losing roll in many dice games”).

Related words

come up roses come up short
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