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hit and miss
noun as in trial and error
Example Sentences
I am abroad, in places where communication with the wider world has been a bit hit-and-miss.
Man does not have to follow nature's slow hit-and-miss method of developing more desirable qualities in her products.
The governors employed for the "hit-and-miss" type are either "inertia" or "centrifugal" governors.
For small motors, one of the most widely used admission devices is that of the "hit-and-miss" type.
The second form is more widely used, and is applicable to engines having "hit-and-miss" or variable admission devices.
It had all one common mark; it was all "the church," but the hit-and-miss of it, its lightning change, bewildered him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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