shot in the dark
Meaning: A guess, often wild or based on little information.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: The Absurd
Origin: The expression suggests that the probability of a correct guess is as small as the probability of hitting something that one shoots at in the dark.
More idioms — The Absurd
- sleep like a log — To sleep so soundly that noise doesn't wake the person.
- snowball's chance in hell — No chance at all.
- sow one's wild oats — To do foolish or wild things, usually as a youth.
- speak of the devil — An expression used when someone who is being talked about has just appeared.
- strange bedfellows — People or things that one does not normally expect to find together.
- strike it rich — To make money (sentence 1); or, less literally, to be wildly successful (sentence 2).
More English idioms
- sit tight — To wait quietly and patiently, often in an anxious situation.
- sitting pretty — In a good or advantageous situation; living comfortably.
- let someone or something slip through someone's fingers — To lose something because one takes too much time to consider the situation.
- slow burn — To be quietly angry.
- slow off the mark — Slow [or quick] to understand a situation.
- sour grapes — A situation where a person criticizes something or someone out of jealousy.
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