seat-of-the-pants
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- (chiefly US, idiomatic) Done by feel, guess, or trial and error rather than by careful planning, thought or technique.
- 1984 January 9, Charles Alexander, Frederick Ungeheuer, “The Billion-Dollar Boys”, in Time:
- The new pension-fund managers are an eclectic group, displaying a spectrum of styles and strategies. Some rely chiefly on computers and charts, while others are more likely to trust their seat-of-the-pants judgment.