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Mexican standoff : ウィキペディア英語版
Mexican standoff

A Mexican standoff is a confrontation among two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it.
The Mexican standoff is a recurring trope in cinema, where several armed characters hold each other at gunpoint.
== Etymology ==
The expression came into use during the last decade of the 19th century; the ''Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary'' makes an unattributed claim that the term is of Australian origin. Other sources claim the reference is to the Mexican–American War or post-war Mexican bandits in the 19th century.〔
The earliest print cite to the phrase was 19 March 1876 in a short story about Mexico, an American being held up by a Mexican bandit, and the outcome:

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