dead heat
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Origin:
1790–1800
1790–1800
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| dead heat | |
| —n | |
| a. a race or contest in which two or more participants tie for first place | |
| b. a tie between two or more contestants in any position | |
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Dead heat
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Idioms & Phrases
dead heat
A contest in which the competitors are equally matched and neither can win; a tie. For example, The two companies are in a dead heat to get a new personal computer on the market. This term comes from 18th-century British horse racing and is still part of racing terminology. It later was transferred to other kinds of competition.
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Example sentences
It's less than two weeks before the presidential election and the polls show a dead heat.
When a race results in a dead heat, the heat shall not be run off.
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