VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Hit and miss

Meaning:

If something is hit and miss, it is unpredictable and may produce good results or it may fail altogether.

Examples:

  • It might be a little hit and miss, but we'll do our best.
  • Well, you know, hit and miss.
  • No, too hit and miss.
  • The Au pair industry is an unregulated industry and is pretty much a hit and miss affair.
  • Utilizing a hit and miss attitude regarding one's stillness practice, is not conducive to building that strong connection, and an analogy might be helpful.
  • Where it has been hit and miss, I have heard some very bad reports of the attitude of some people in the Commission in relation to annual action programmes.
  • In fact, you will find quite a range of dolphin related gifts around the internet, although in your local store it may be hit and miss as to whether you will find anything.
  • In the same sense that a hit and miss attitude toward one's commitment to enter into the stillness is not conducive to attaining the goal, this same attitude regarding our commitment to the brotherhood is much the same.
  • It's kind of... Hit and miss with her.