lady or tiger
English
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.
Pronunciation
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Noun
lady or the tiger
- (idiomatic) A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.
See also
The Lady, or the Tiger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia