| 单词 | hit or miss |
| 释义 | > as lemmashit or miss a. hit or miss: Whether one hits or misses; at random, at haphazard, happy-go-lucky. (Cf. hitty-missy adv. and adj.) Also attributive and substantive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > by chance by perchance1495 at a venture1517 per accidens1528 at hazard (also hazards)a1533 at random1543 by occasion1562 at range1568 by the way1572 by (also at) (a) peradventurea1586 hit or miss1609 at the by1611 hob-nob1660 hit and miss1897 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 377 But hit or misse, Our proiects life this shape of sence assumes. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 115 Whose practise in Physick is nothing but the Countrey dance, call'd Hit or Misse. 1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft (1721) i. 14 Do we all march towards Heaven hit or miss, and by guess? 1848 in Amer. Speech (1935) 10 40/2 Hit-or-miss-carpet, a carpet woven from strips of old cloth sewed together. 1864 Harper's Mag. June 60/1 My husband is Colonel of the Third Regiment in the Hit-or-Miss Brigade, United States Cavalry. 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 42 It is not the happy-go-lucky hit-or-miss sort of thing that you may fancy. 1927 J. Adams Errors in School 211 Hit-or-miss method. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. 399 They were impulsive, chancy, amateurish, very much hit-or-miss. 1959 P. Bull I know Face vii. 114 It was much a hit-or-miss part. 1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes v. 168 Motor-driven lenses, or hit-or-miss methods involving tricky out-of-focus photographic and lighting techniques are used. < as lemmas |
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