double or quits

British  

noun

1. a game, throw, toss, etc, to decide whether the stake due is to be doubled or cancelled

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Example Sentences

The two weren't done, though, settling the friendly competition with a "double or quits" axe-throwing contest.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 4, 2019

It presents him with a classic game of double or quits.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2012

I'll cure you for half-a-crown, and toss you up double or quits.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

Deportment for Gents being threw at a policeman and soiled, Dale only paid six bits; but I tossed him double or quits, and come out all right.

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger

It was double or quits, Master Segrave," rejoined Lambert, "which brings it up to two hundred pounds. . . .

From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness