come up with snake eyes

come up with +‎ snake eyes (“a pair of dice showing a value of 1”). This is a losing roll in many dice games.

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, idiomatic) To fail to come up with anything; to get nowhere.

• come up snake eyes

• come up short
• come up roses