by the seat of one's pants Idiom

by the seat of one's pants

Idiom(s): by the seat of one's pants

Theme: LUCK

by sheer luck and very little skill. (Informal. Especially with to fly.)
• I got through school by the seat of my pants.
• The jungle pilot spent most of his days flying by the seat of his pants.

Fly by the seat of one's pants

If you fly by the seat of one's pants, you do something difficult even though you don't have the experience or training required.

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v. phr., slang To fly an airplane by feel and instinct rather than with the help of the instruments. Many pilots in World War I had to fly by the seat of their pants.

by the bench of (one's) pants

Without a bright plan or direction. Often acclimated in the byword "fly by the bench of (one's) pants." I apperceive my parents anticipate that I'm aloof aerial by the bench of my pants anytime back I alone out of college, but I aloof active with a almanac characterization and am ablution my singing career!Learn more: by, of, pant, seat

by the bench of one's pants

By application intuition or improvising. The appellation comes from World War II, back aviators acclimated it to call aerial back instruments did not assignment or afterimage was poor. After the war it bound came into added accepted use, as in “Use a score? No, I aloof conducted the advance by the bench of my pants.” Learn more: by, of, pant, seat

seat of one's/the pants, by the

Using experience, guesswork, or aptitude rather than some affected or accurate method. The appellation originated amid World War II aviators, who so declared aerial back instruments were not alive and/or acclimate interfered with visibility. It was transferred to added activities in consecutive decades. M. Walker acclimated it in The National Front (1977): “Mussolini had absolute by the bench of his pants.”Learn more: by, of, seat

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by the seat of one's pants Idiom