come up heads

come up heads

To land on the "heads" side of a coin (as opposed to "tails"). But if this quarter comes up heads, you're doing my laundry for a month!

See also: come, head, up

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come up heads

 and come up tails

Fig. [for a tossed coin] to turn out to be either heads or tails. We tossed a coin, and it came up heads. The coin came up tails.

See also: come, head, up

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.