He knew that the error in either direction is equally fatal.
In practice, West saw this coming and put up the heart king, but that was equally fatal.
They discovered that the lead of the ace of diamonds would have been equally fatal.
To call the police into it would be equally fatal.
It would be equally fatal to talk about it to her Auntie May.
The problem was that every known method of doing so was equally fatal to the person hosting the virus.
The damage to the Ferengi ship appeared less dramatic, but it was equally fatal.
That one had been taken down and beaten with bats, or metal bars; a less dramatic but equally fatal end.
So goes the explanation, but it omits the equally fatal role of the automobile.
She returned a heart, giving South her ninth trick, but other plays would have been equally fatal, allowing dummy's diamonds to come into play.