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wing it

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wing it
to improvise; to do something extemporaneously. I lost my lecture notes, so I had to wing it. Don't worry. Just go out there and wing it.
See also: wing

wing it  (informal)
to do the best that you can in a situation that you are not prepared for I hadn't had time to prepare the talk so I just had to wing it.
See also: wing

wing it
to invent a way to deal with a situation you are not prepared for I didn't have time to write a speech, so I just had to wing it in front of a large audience. Some actors can wing it, others go completely silent when something happens on stage that isn't supposed to happen.
Related vocabulary: on the fly
See also: wing


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