come up with snake eyes

Meaning

Verb

To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

Origin

come up with + snake eyes. From a game of dice, using a pair of dice, in which two 1's are the lowest count, where in many games of dice this is the lowest value and thus losing roll.

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