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hit and miss

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hit and miss and hit or miss
carelessly; aimlessly; without plan or direction. There was no planning. It was just hit and miss. We handed out the free tickets hit or miss. Some people got one. Others got five or six.
See also: and, hit, miss

hit and/or miss
if something is hit and miss, you cannot be certain of its quality because it is sometimes good and sometimes bad We used a cheap printer, but the quality was a bit hit or miss. Weather forecasting used to be a very hit-and-miss affair.
See also: and, hit, miss


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Offering an analysis of various job positions and career-oriented implications, Men At Work will help women assessing prospective men, picking apart and excluding the unworthy and unworkable, thereby avoiding the heart-breaking process of blind chance in figuring out certain the pros and cons of certain male "breeds" through a random process of hit and miss.
``It's been hit and miss at times so far, but I'm not worried.
Rather hit and miss, they include domestic works remarkably poor in terms of basic planning.
 
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