Two Definitions
Apr. 14th, 2003 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Russian roulette
An act of bravado in which a person loads (usu.) one chamber of a revolver, spins the cylinder, holds the barrel to his head, and pulls the trigger [OED]
Yanqui roulette
"the revolving gun turret of the Bush doctrine" (which has many more than one bullet) [from the FT 14/04/03, quoted in The Wrap]
Get ready to duck as the wheel spins.