Toss-up

Whether you pick the Lions or Tigers to win, the result will be a toss-up because both teams are equally strong.

It is a toss-up whether the playboy will marry the blonde or the brunette; both girls are so beautiful.

It is a toss-up whether to drink sake or whiskey; too much of either results equally in drunken revelry.

It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.

“He’ll do,” said the Doctor, quietly. “It must have been a toss-up all through the night. ’Think you’re to be congratulated on this case.”

No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick from October.