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vb. (context idiomatic English) To turn to one side a balanced situation.
Usage examples of "tip the scales".
They like the odd bit of prayer, when they can get it, just in case it might tip the scales in their favor someday, and they're absolutely potty about confession.
Should Law or Chaos gain supremacy and tip the scales too far, we face death—.
Surely that would appease Lloth and tip the scales of favor back into balance.
But an uprising in the central provinces would tip the scales for us!
Now, they tended the wounded and dead comrades among them, and sought to tip the scales on the ones they might lose.
It was such a small portion, but it was enough to be a weapon that could tip the scales in their favor in the oncoming Final War.
On the other hand, a third member of his party might tip the scales, and the gods knew that most weight now lay in the wrong pan .
On the other hand, a third member of his party might tip the scales, and the gods knew that most weight now lay in the wrong pan .
Axantucar's justification was that the Empire needed stability, but Saric had sourly noted that somehow the new Warlord always managed to tip the scales in favour of those who had supported his rise to power.
Though the feathery pressure on his thighs and buttocks told Hamid-Jones that thus far he would tip the scales at only a few ounces, there was no doubt that weight was returning to the ship.
He needed some drastic measure to tip the scales in another direction.
Gallieni had launched all the men who knew how to handle a gun against the extreme right of the adversary at the supreme moment when the most insignificant weight might tip the scales in favor of the victory which was hanging in the balance.
Aubrey had enough enemies in MI5 and JIC and the Cabinet Office for it to tip the scales against him.
The event would be the culmination of many other events, all leading to the proverbial last straw that would tip the scales in the demon's favor.
The event would be the culmination of many other events, all leading to the proverbial last straw that would tip the scales in the demon’.