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Mexican standoff
noun- a situation in which nobody clearly has the advantage or emerges a clear winner US, 1891
- It is a Mexican standoff. In a Mexican standoff, both parties narrow their eyes and glare but nobody throws a punch. — Tom Wolfe, The Pump House Gang, p. 16, 1968
- Our brothers loaded up. Every cop stopped in his tracks and stepped back. It was like the proverbial Mexican standoff. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 213, 1978
- — Maledicta, p. 166, 1979: “A glossary of ethnic slurs in American English”
- Looks like we got a Mexican standoff. — Natural Born Killers, 1994
- the quitting of a poker game when a player is slightly ahead, slightly behind, or even US, 1958
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 284, 1979
- — Maledicta, p. 166, 1979: “A glossary of ethnic slurs in American English”
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