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Nip and tuck

adjective

Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition. Synonyms: head-to-head, neck and neck. "The election was a nip and tuck affair"

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"Nip and tuck" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the timber, and fought. It was nip and tuck. No friends were at hand. But Simon was still too young; down he went, under the rain of blows, and Leitchman, taunting him with the loss of his sweetheart, proceeded to "give him ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... nip and tuck across to the Contra Costa Hills, neither of us seeming to gain or to lose. But by the time we had made the return tack to the Sonoma Hills, we could see that, while we footed it at about equal speed, Demetrios had eaten ...

— Tales of the Fish Patrol • Jack London

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