Double Jeopardy
See also: double jeopardy
English
Etymology
Named after double jeopardy, the legal concept, in the quiz show Jeopardy!
Noun
- A round of questioning or other situation where the possible gains and/or losses from choices are magnified.
- 1988 July, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, 20th Century Fox
- John McClane: Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?
- 1999, Optimizing Network Traffic, Notes from the Field, volume 3, Microsoft Press
- Specifically, if after all this travel the application is inefficiently designed, the process gets into double jeopardy, where the scores can really change.
- 2000 April, Edward Bear, The Seven Deadly Needs, pages 87-88, Health Communications
- We may now be ready for the Double Jeopardy round. Now for the next question
- 1988 July, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, 20th Century Fox
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