loaded dice

loaded dice

1. Literally, dice that have each been weighted to one side so as to increase the odds of their landing on the opposite number. When they found out we'd been using loaded dice, they threw us out of the club and told us to never come back.
2. By extension, a means of gaining an advantage through the exploitation or manipulation of rules or regulations. At the height of the economic boom, investment bankers were using sub-prime mortgages with falsified credit ratings as loaded dice to make as much money as possible.
See also: dice, loaded
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • play with loaded dice
  • literally
  • within an ace of, to be
  • roll the dice
  • snake eyes
  • audi alteram partem
  • no matter which way the dice fall
  • (one) must have killed a Chinaman
  • bear in
  • beat/knock/kick the hell out of somebody/something
References in periodicals archive
"Pewter, Murder, and Loaded Dice" is the story of Devin Predire, an eighth grader faced with the death of Colin Mulroney, whose blood may be on Devin's hands.
INTERVIEW RECOGNITION and praise can sometimes come in the form of a loaded dice. A few well placed words and you can be on your way to superstardom.
Whether you shake a dice to decide who's in charge (if it's you, he must do exactly as you say - if it's him, then you didn't buy the right type of loaded dice!), then the pleasures (and delays) of teasing can be introduced.
Gambling his beloved Spaceship Earth on a single roll of loaded dice, without fully understanding the game we are playing, would probably break his heart.
The sky can be brilliant blue after a cold front has ripped through, tossing FEMA trailers around like loaded dice or, as it was this afternoon, a collage of mournful grays wrapped in towering egg whites, that held a promise of evening thunderstorms.
A credulity-straining plan is hatched which involves loaded dice, the massive excavator that dug the Chunnel, bedbugs and seismology.
When you can't win a bet with loaded dice, something is wrong with the game.
Gambling was also popular and there is even a set of loaded dice from the 1400s, unearthed from the Thames foreshore.
In Cancun, the developing countries said they were no longer prepared to play the game with loaded dice.
Vaughn is badly beaten up by Hamilton's bully boys and left for dead after causing trouble by pointing out that the croupier is using loaded dice. But the local sheriff has no interest in upholding the law.
"If awards were a crap game, the MPAA wants to play with loaded dice," says Gire, who reviews films for the Chicago Daily Herald.
The latter, for example, is how one would simulate loaded dice. Data can also be exported to specified lists for further analysis on the calculator.
Finally, Mauget and Upchurch want to test whether those loaded dice will be a help or a fatal lure.
Pilot Mr Graham Reid said he had lost control of the Loaded Dice aircraft just after it had taken off.
This led Werner into a study of loaded dice in action.