send for a toss

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English

Verb

send for a toss (third-person singular simple present sends for a toss, present participle sending for a toss, simple past and past participle sent for a toss)

  1. (idiomatic) To use or invest on the off chance.
    • 1986, British Homing World - Volume 59, page 10:
      He is going to Rennes and was sent for a toss, bred down from Kirkpatrick stock.
    • 2014, Sharad Singh, Love Stuck Dumb Struck:
      She was overpowering, stronger than me, not physically but in every other respect and I think that is what drew me close to her in the first place when each piece of my imagination was sent for a toss.
    • 2016, Kaushik, “The Soprano”, in The Essence of Nonsense: A Comedy of Satire:
      The Notes of Chaos, Were sent for a Toss, By the Music of Blessed Violence, And Dharma finally granted the World, The Golden Gift of Silence!