lady or tiger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.

Pronunciation

En-au-lady or tiger.ogg

Word forms

lady or tiger

Etymology

From the short story The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank R. Stockton, in which a condemned man is offered two doors, one of which leads to a beautiful woman and the other to a ferocious tiger.

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