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Idiom

fly blind

Meaning

To do by guesswork; to feel one's way.

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

Examples

“I have no instructions, so I am flying blind.”

“Without any data from the market research, the team had to fly blind when they launched the new product.”

“The pilot was forced to fly blind through the dense fog, relying entirely on his instruments to navigate the aircraft safely to the runway.”

Examples

simple

“I have no instructions, so I am flying blind.”

contextual

“Without any data from the market research, the team had to fly blind when they launched the new product.”

complex

“The pilot was forced to fly blind through the dense fog, relying entirely on his instruments to navigate the aircraft safely to the runway.”

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