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View synonyms for too close to call

too close to call



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Idioms and Phrases

Resulting in too narrow a margin to make a decision, as in That ball didn't miss by much but it was too close to call , or The election was too close to call, so they decided to have a runoff . This expression comes from sports, where call has signified “a judgment” since the mid-1600s. In the 1960s it began to be applied to pre-election polls and then to the outcome of elections.
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Example Sentences

But the second semi, between Germany and Spain should be yet another too-close-to-call classic.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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