send for a toss

present singular third person sends for a toss · participle present sending for a toss · participle past sent for a toss · past sent for a toss

1. idiomaticTo use or invest on the off chance.

   He is going to Rennes and was sent for a toss, bred down from Kirkpatrick stock.

   1986, British Homing World - Volume 59, page 10

   2 more examples

   She was overpowering, stronger than me, not physically but in every other respect and I think that is what drew me close to her in the first place when each piece of my imagination was sent for a toss.

   2014, Sharad Singh, Love Stuck Dumb Struck

   The Notes of Chaos, Were sent for a Toss, By the Music of Blessed Violence, And Dharma finally granted the World, The Golden Gift of Silence!

   2016, Kaushik, “The Soprano”, in The Essence of Nonsense: A Comedy of Satire