on automatic pilot

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on automatic pilot (informal) also on autopilot (informal)

if you are on automatic pilot, or do something on automatic pilot, you do something without thinking about what you are doing, usually because you have done it many times before By the second week of the election campaign she was making all her speeches on automatic pilot.

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