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English
Pronunciation
Noun
heads or tails
- (idiomatic) The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.
Translations
heads or tails
- Arabic: طُرَّةٌ أَم نَقْشٌ (ṭurratun ʔam naqšun), طُرَّةٌ أَو نَقْشٌ (ṭurratun ʔaw naqšun)
- Armenian: գիր-ղուշ (gir-ġuš)
- Breton: pennoù pe lostoù
- Bulgarian: ези́ или́ тура́ (ezí ilí turá)
- Catalan: a cara o creu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (toss a coin) 擲硬幣/掷硬币 (zhì yìngbì), 擲毫/掷毫 (zhì háo)
- Czech: panna nebo orel
- Danish: plat eller krone
- Dutch: kruis of munt, kop of munt
- Esperanto: monerumado
- Finnish: kolikonheitto (fi), lantinheitto, kruuna vai klaava
- French: pile ou face (fr)
- German: Kopf oder Zahl
- Greek: κορώνα ή γράμματα (koróna í grámmata)
- Hebrew: עֵץ אוֹ פָּלִי (he) (étz ó páli)
- Hungarian: fej vagy írás
- Italian: testa o croce f
- Japanese: コイントス (koin tosu)
- Korean: 앞이야 뒤야 (apiya dwiya)
- Latvian: cipars vai ģerbonis
- Lithuanian: herbas arba skaičius
- Macedonian: глава или писмо (glava ili pismo)
- Norwegian: krone eller mynt
- Polish: orzeł czy reszka
- Portuguese: cara ou coroa m
- Romanian: cap sau pajură
- Russian: орля́нка (ru) f (orljánka), орёл и́ли ре́шка (orjól íli réška)
- Spanish: águila o sol (Mexico), cara o ceca (Argentina), cara o corona (El Salvador), cara o cruz (es) (especially Spain), cara o escudo (Cuba, Guatemala), cara o número (Uruguay), cara o sello (es) (Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela), escudo o corona (Costa Rica)
- Swedish: krona eller klave, singla slant
- Tagalog: kara-krus
- Turkish: yazı tura (tr)
- Welsh: tu blaen ynteu tu chwith, gwlybyn ynte sychyn (Southwest)
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