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lady or tiger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.