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fly by the seat of pants

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fly by the seat of your pants

to do something difficult without the necessary experience or ability None of us had ever worked on a magazine before so we were flying by the seat of our pants.

See also: fly, of, pant, seat

fly by the seat of your pants

  (informal)

to do something difficult without the necessary experience or ability (often in continuous tenses) None of us had ever worked on a magazine before so we were flying by the seat of our pants.

See also: fly, of, pant, seat