crapshoot

Noun

 * 1) A game of craps.
 * 2)  A venture with a highly risky or unpredictable outcome.

Quotations

 * 1951, August 11, Bill Smith, The Billboard, article El Rancho Gets Mucho Puncho as Middleton, Robbins Go Over Big, page 3:
 * The audience, mixed up between corny tourists and the crap-shooting hepsters, yocked it up to make Robbins a solid hit.
 * 1971, September 10, Thomas Thompson, LIFE, article The Crapshoot for Half a Billion, page 47:
 * … the new television season—the event called more bluntly “the half-billion-dollar crapshoot” by those who have made it and who now await blessing or malediction …
 * 2003, The West Wing, episode 5-04 Han:
 * The negotiations are a crapshoot. Whole damn job's a crapshoot.
 * The negotiations are a crapshoot. Whole damn job's a crapshoot.

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