come up with snake eyes

come up with +‎ snake eyes (“a pair of dice with 1's showing face up”). From a game of dice, using a pair of dice, in which two 1's are the lowest count, where in many games of dice this is the lowest value and thus losing roll.

come up with snake eyes (third-person singular simple present comes up with snake eyes, present participle coming up with snake eyes, simple past came up with snake eyes, past participle come up with snake eyes)

1. (slang) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

• come up snake eyes

• come up short
• come up roses