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English
Noun
two-handed game (plural two-handed games)
- (UK, slang, archaic) A game or proposal in which the chances are fairly even; a situation where one will get as good as one gives.
1849, Masonic Signet and Literary Mirror, volume 1, page 379:"Mr. Pillow, Sir, none of your impertinence, or I will chastise you as well as this fellow." "That's a two handed game, by thunder," said Long Tom, " […] I dare you to deadly combat. […] "
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two-handed, game. (a game for two players)
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary