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toss-up

 noun
     
toss-up
1

it's a toss-up

spoken used when you do not know which of two things will happen, or which of two things to choose:
I don't know who'll get the job - it's a toss-up between Carl and Steve.
2 [countable usually singular] British English an act of tossing a coin in order to decide something
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