In earlier years, kids trundling hoops or playing pitch-and-toss had been a target.

"That's between me and the mirror," said the man who risked everything on a pitch-and-toss, and who's not looking back.

With an admirable affectation of indifference, Morris proposed a game of pitch-and-toss.

Once there, David, it's mere pitch-and-toss.

All this preamble was needful to explain to you that for the future my position in life will be such as a man needs if he wants to play the great game of pitch-and-toss.

He had improvised with the materials at hand and come out ahead: bluffed and been bold and creative ready, as the poet said, to risk it all on a turn of pitch-and-toss.

That day in early November when a warm sun was turning the autumn trees to gold, they entered the park by Grosvenor Gate and passed a group of young chimneysweeps in the Ring playing pitch-and-toss.

Traditionally, the beat in the city had been the area for serious mischief - the dread of young men playing pitch-and-toss (the first such incident is reported in 1839, and the latest in 1979), and the perils of children flying kites.