"come up with snake eyes" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: comes up with snake eyes [present, singular, third-person], coming up with snake eyes [participle, present], came up with snake eyes [past], come up with snake eyes [participle, past]
Etymology: come up with + snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1”). This is a losing roll in many dice games. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|come up with|snake eyes|gloss2=a pair of dice showing a value of 1}} come up with + snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1”) Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> up with snake eyes|head=come up with snake eyes}} come up with snake eyes (third-person singular simple present comes up with snake eyes, present participle coming up with snake eyes, simple past came up with snake eyes, past participle come up with snake eyes)
  1. (slang, idiomatic) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere. Tags: idiomatic, slang Synonyms: come up snake eyes Related terms: come up short, come up roses
    Sense id: en-come_up_with_snake_eyes-en-verb-uEjpDoNh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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