come up with snake eyes
English
editEtymology
editFrom come up with + snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1”). This is a losing roll in many dice games.
Verb
editcome 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)
- (slang, idiomatic) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.