"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose"

[Sam Clements]

There's an 1822 London Times cite over at N'archive.

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> 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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