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Gamble where the loser has a shot?
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russian roulette
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Russian Roulette is a 1976 album by English rock/pop group, The Hollies . This album is the band's second release in 1976 (the other album being Write On ). This album is notable for having been composed entirely by the group's songwriting team. This album ...
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Russian roulette \Rus"sian roulette\ An act of bravado played by loading one bullet into one chamber of a revolver in which the cylinder has five or six positions, spinning the cylinder (thus moving the bullet randomly to one of the six positions of the ...
Usage examples of russian roulette.
Ortega was sitting across the table from me, talking mildly on random subjects as he brought the pistol to his temple for another round of Russian roulette.
If we push him any further, we're playing, if you'll pardon the expression, Russian roulette.
Or as the British agent himself might have it, a game of Russian roulette.
This was Russian roulette they'd got me playing: either we'd get across the frontier or we wouldn't.
I wanted to know the future and this was the only way to find out, Russian roulette, yes, but that's part of our trade, we're used to it.
Most of the pilots accepted the situation: the Striker was a rogue aircraft and their orders were to fly it and as far as they were concerned it was a game of Russian roulette - I'd heard that phrase more than once at Linsdorf.
This was, he realized, like playing Russian roulette with three or four bullets in the cylinder.
Time was when going out into that interstellar nothingness was a lot like playing Russian roulette.