miss : Idioms & Phrases


hit-or-miss

  • adjective satellite dependent upon or characterized by chance
    haphazard.
    • a haphazard plan of action
    • his judgment is rather hit-or-miss
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  • noun hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
    ape-man.
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near miss

  • noun an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided
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To miss stays

  • (Naut.), to fail in the attempt to go about. Totten.
Webster 1913