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Itasan Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

argue the toss

'argue the toss'

This is said to be BrE. If so,
what is the American equivalent?
Thank you.
  

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Again, Itasan, some of us Americans don't know what it means, so we can't tell you the American equivalent! Eventually someone will turn up who knows both, but you might sometimes get the answer more quickly if you post the definition.

— Khoff

  • Again, Itasan, some of us Americans don't know what it means, so we can't tell you the American equivalent!
  • Eventually someone will turn up who knows both, but you might sometimes get the answer more quickly if you post the definition.
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Again, Itasan, some of us Americans don't know what it means, so we can't tell you the American equivalent! Eventually someone will turn up who knows both, but you might sometimes get the answer more quickly if you post the definition.
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OK. Sorry I should have posted the definition.

LDCE: BrE informal to continue to argue about a decision that has been made and cannot be changed: There was no point arguing the toss after the goal had been disallowed.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk?

I can't think of any better idiom at this moment.
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Oh, yes.

Thank you very much.
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Isn't there something about "closing the barn door after the horse is gone"?
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"Argue the toss (on/about something)" is "argue what was already decided by tossing a coin". It was originally a slang used among Commonwealth's sailors. I think one of the best paraphrases for it would be "beat or flog a dead horse (on/about something)". Its original sense was "try to revive interest in an old issue among the people who are now indifferent toward it". Although it is also of Brit
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Thank you very much, Paco.
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