チキンレース

noun

chicken race; game of chicken

A contest where two parties drive toward each other or a cliff; the first to swerve loses. Used metaphorically for any high-stakes standoff where neither side wants to back down.

• あの交こう渉しょうは完かん全ぜんにチキンレースだった。

  That negotiation was a complete game of chicken.

• チキンレースのような値ね下さげ競きょう争そうは危き険けんだ。

  A price-cutting war like a chicken race is dangerous.