leap in the dark

Noun

Meaning

leap in the dark (plural leaps in the dark)

An act or attempt without any idea about what the result will be.
Synonym: leap into the unknown

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

bet long shot lucky dip

Related terms

in the dark shot in the dark whistle in the dark stab in the dark

Examples

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. Anthony Trollope

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau

A great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes

I am powerless, helpless. Each time it's a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown. Bram van Velde

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille

Close letter words and terms

leap frog leap from an aircraft leap in leap into leap into action leap into the void