Sentences with phrase «stab in the dark»

When you take a long, hard look at 2012's sports titles, pretty much all you see are a lot of stopgap solutions and wild stabs in the dark at something, anything different to do with the hardware we've been saddled with lo these last several years.

All the endless speculation, rumors, guesses, conjectures and just plain wild stabs in the dark about the next generation of...

Without doing so you're just stabbing in the dark and possibly wasting time.

It was «a kind of stab in the dark,» she concedes.

But you're just making stabs in the dark if you don't know if you're going to be a good fit for those jobs.

Fans, commentators and every one with an opinion has years commented on Arsenal's deficiencies yet the club's recruitment policy has become an opportunistic stab in the dark with the club unable to secure the quality players needed.

Speaking to the UKTV podcast A Stab In The Dark, Gatiss again expressed his frustrations with being unable to align the schedules of Sherlock «s two main stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

All the endless speculation, rumors, guesses, conjectures and just plain wild stabs in the dark about the next generation of video game consoles finally came to an end today.

It's still great to get a big X of sales over a short Y amount of time, but Amazon likes sales consistency, not stabs in the dark that can't be sustained.

Why threaten me with eternal fire, when my God has already promised me eternal life... these silly sentiments and misguided stabs in the dark will only further serve to confuse the masses more.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

Is this urge to find meaning that seems to be a psychological necessity really a futile stab in the dark?

The things you worry about... ok my friend, you just need more wine and you won't worry as much I worry and all of parenting feels like blind stabs in the dark some days, but we're all just doing the best we can do and you're an amazing mama!

He has not exactly been prolific at Old Trafford but I like him and what he offers the team and there have been plenty of reports linking him with us before which said that Arsene Wenger was a fan, so it is not just a transfer stab in the dark.

I'm on a role with the predictions Chris as I nailed the 3 - 0 against Watford and Danny's glorious double celebration of his deserved England recall Course no need to mention the poor Milan finishing that thwarted my 3 - 2 pre match stab in the dark.

Without a signal from the craft, troubleshooting «is like stabbing in the dark because you don't have any information at all,» explains Bowman.

But, hey, it's a show about running bootleg liquor during Prohibition, so a bottle makes about as much sense as anything else, and I'm going to take a similar stab in the dark and presume that what they're moving onto trucks in the next shot is crates of the same stuff.

The story of Schlenker's first issue of Gratuitous Type is a lot like the story of many first issues, which are often a tense combination of a passionate desire to make and say something new, a lot of head bashing with printers and distributors, and a clueless, frantic stab in the dark.

It is always refreshing when you don't have an inventory full of useless items that «maybe I'll use later», and you don't have to just wildly stab in the dark at item combinations.

But, if he'd stop taking inept stabs in the dark at a book he hasn't even picked up, he might realize that he and I are in substantial agreement: «A Disgrace to the Profession» supports David Appell's view that Mann is «not honorable» and does not «fight fair», and that respectable scientists do not engage in «the behind - the - scenes organizing of public points of view» and «intolerance» of dissent.

We're so extremely far away from the next iPhone right now that I'm taking a total stab in the dark with the name iPhone 12 - it could also be the iPhone Pro, or the iPhone 11 (even though X is 10, and 11 should then come in 2018, and this device is tipped for 2019).

Whether it is agent posturing, touting his players» availability around in the media in order to garner interest, or journalists making stabs in the dark, however, the vast majority of these links are unfounded and ultimately come to nothing.

Speaking on the podcast A Stab in the Dark (Via Digital Spy), Gatiss has said the following: «It was very, very hard to schedule the last series, because of Martin [Freeman] and Benedict [Cumberbatch]'s availability.

We have helpfully added a link next to each match so that you can see what odds you can get on each game and you can then decide to either follow our suggestions or take your own wild stab in the dark.

It may be a stab in the dark regarding whether or not your email list will have many people in your local area or who are willing to travel for your event, but it's certainly worth a shot.

You're also able to see a freelancer's work history and reviews before you hire them, which makes it less of a stab in the dark than other hiring methods.

Because the return on investment (ROI) of social media can be a little harder to track than other marketing efforts, it can sometimes feel like you're stabbing in the dark.

Such a stab in the dark becomes completely unrealistic when it makes any kind of specific claim about a divine being.

So I've named some more, and let me take a stab in the dark here, You dislike being proven wrong so you're going to reject these examples along with the others I mentioned....

Regardless of how we understand purpose, then, if we hold that nature is influenced by any sort of final causation, this contention will appear to many to be no more than a stab in the dark without any empirical warrant.

This is just a stab in the dark, but did you possibly forget to «bake the dough until the top is golden brown, about 12 minutes» before you poured in the honey - butter - almond mixture?

Probably a wild stab in the dark, but one never knows.

There are just a bunch of loose transactions and stabs in the dark that the A's are forced to take because the farm system isn't producing.

There are crucial factors determining the outcome of these games we have no clue about at this point, bercause they hasn't happened yet... This is just 16 stabs in the dark.

She is well remembered for her roles in classic Ghanaian movies including; A Stab in the Dark, Forbidden Fruit, Ripples, The Mask, House Arrest, My Father's Wife, Messages, Deadline for Asante, Without Her Consent, and Jewels.

I've never them do political media polls before, if I had to make a wild stab in the dark I'd guess that the News of World phoned up ICM for a poll and found that ICM were already contracted to do a poll on the same subject for the Guardian this weekend, and were hence given MSL as someone else who might be able to do it for them.

A year later, these stabs in the dark paid off when researchers proved super-Earths are not just a funky phenomenon around pulsars.

Do an online search of the fruit or vegetable to find out how you might work with it, or just have a stab in the dark as to how to use it.

It's based on the novels Eight Million Ways to Die & A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block.

I didn't watch any of them so this is a bit of a stab in the dark, though I've seen it populate some prognosticator's lists.

So if the original movie could be argued to be a stab in the dark that luckily hit the funny bone, the fact remains that lightning hardly ever strikes twice in the same place.

At times (okay, most of the time) I felt like I was taking a stab in the dark.

Taking a wild stab in the dark, we surmised that the letter icon must be the means of programming a destination by address, a leap of faith that proved inspired as it brought up an on - screen keypad that allowed us to program in our address with ease using the large virtual letters.

I think by sharing our experiences we can all learn a bit more from each other so these kind of decisions aren't as stab in the dark and trial and error based — so many times I have shaken my head and rolled my eyes and said «why did I do that?

Frequent rebalancing back to your asset allocation targets will force you to buy low and sell high, rather than a stab in the dark on what 2016 might hold from a mere mortal like me.

I don't really have any insight into what they might realize so this is just a stab in the dark.

If we had to make a stab in the dark, we would put money on it having something to do with the new Avatar system.