heads or tails

Meaning

1. heads or tails?

   used to ask sb which side of a coin they think will be facing upwards when it is tossed in order to decide sth by chance

In the movies · 8

• I couldn't make heads or tails of his story.The Sisters Brothers2018
• Isaac hid the room with a hex so no one would find these, but I can't make heads or tails of this.The House with a Clock in Its Walls2018
• Heads, it's Harry. Tails, it's Mick.Michael Collins1996
• as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991
• Heads, I'll take it. Tails, he's all yours.The Dark Knight2008
• when something like this happens, I pray very hard to make heads or tails of it, and...Steel Magnolias1989
• Heads, I wash: tails, I don’t.Sabotage1937
• - Well, what is it? - Heads. No, I mean tails.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Learn it in full scenes

• Steel Magnolias1989
  • Truvy Hires Annelle
  • Truvy Hires Annelle
  • Shelby's Wedding Morning
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

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• a head
• bang your heads together
• be banging, your head against a brick wall
• be head and shoulders above
• bite head off
• bring to a head
• bury your head in the sand
• can't make head nor tail of
• do head in
• do standing on your head
• from head to foot
• get your head down