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shot in the dark

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[shot in the dark] {n. phr.}

An attempt without much hope or chance of succeeding; a wild guess.

* /A was just a shot in the dark, but I got the right answer to the teacher's question./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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