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fly blind
Idioms and Phrases
Feel one's way, proceed by guesswork, as in There are no directions for assembling this furniture, so I'm flying blind . This hyperbolic expression dates from World War II, when it was used by pilots who could not see the horizon and therefore had to rely on instruments. It was transferred to broader use soon afterward.Example Sentences
Without that information, said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Canada.”we’re flying blind.”
At this point, everyone is flying blind with just a few months until the first presidential ballots are cast.
But polling wise, it's a lot of flying blind.
“There’s next to no data” on people with depression, bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses taking semaglutide, he said — and until there’s more evidence, “you’re sort of flying blind.”
“Without that information, it feels like we’re flying blind,” Judge Thomas Wilson said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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