🗓️ Idiom: A Shot in the Dark (n)
💬 Meaning
- A guess or action made without much information or certainty.
- It means trying something with low chances of success and hoping it works.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The team didn’t have much data, so their proposal was a shot in the dark.
- Choosing that marketing strategy was a shot in the dark but it worked surprisingly well.
- Sometimes innovation begins with a shot in the dark.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from the idea of shooting at something you can’t see, like in complete darkness. In business, it describes guesses or decisions made with little information or clarity.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Without customer feedback, launching the new feature was __________.
Answer
a shot in the dark
2. Choose the correct meaning of “a shot in the dark”:
A) A carefully researched solution
B) A confident and tested decision
C) A guess with little information
D) A repeated process
Answer
C) A guess with little information
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They tried something even though they didn’t know if it would succeed.” → Change the sentence using: a shot in the dark
Answer
They took a shot in the dark and tried something new.