hit or miss

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hit or miss also hit and miss

not planned carefully and as likely to be bad as to be good Hiring has often been hit or miss – we never really knew whether a person was qualified until after they started working here.

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There will be no such thing as living with him—they are both bad shots though, mere chance—mere chance—now, I never fired twice at a cloven foot in my life—it is hit or miss with me—dead or run away-had it been a bear, or a wild-cat, a man might have wanted both barrels. The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

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