"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose"

[Fred Shapiro]

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., used the expression "Heads I win, tails you
lose" in _The Professor at the Breakfast-Table_ (1860).  Is anyone able to
trace earlier usage of this phrase?

Fred Shapiro


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