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Idiom

by guess or by gosh

Meaning

at random

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I fixed the broken machine by guess or by gosh.”

“Without a map, we found our way through the forest by guess or by gosh.”

“Lacking any clear instructions, the team proceeded by guess or by gosh, hoping their intuition would lead them to the correct solution.”

Examples

simple

“I fixed the broken machine by guess or by gosh.”

contextual

“Without a map, we found our way through the forest by guess or by gosh.”

complex

“Lacking any clear instructions, the team proceeded by guess or by gosh, hoping their intuition would lead them to the correct solution.”

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