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wing it
Idioms and Phrases
Improvise, as in The interviewer had not read the author's book; he was just winging it . This expression comes from the theater, where it alludes to an actor studying his part in the wings (the areas to either side of the stage) because he has been suddenly called on to replace another. First recorded in 1885, it eventually was extended to other kinds of improvisation based on unpreparedness.Example Sentences
While Darcy Graham's dancing feet threaten on one wing, it was Duhan van der Merwe's power that shrugged off Ellis Mee on the other, creating space for Huw Jones on the outside.
It’s about the particular kind of broad brush with which this discourse painted, about its pretense at playfulness and irony, when it was actually pretty indignant about old hierarchies eroding, and about its unwillingness to admit just how right wing it really was.
"Yeah Brennan's fine. It was just tactical. I thought we would need Deki Kulusevski because the way the game is going, Deki is a like a hybrid midfielder and can also break out on that right wing. It was just a tactical switch, but Brennan is fine."
Like “The West Wing,†it was a break from reality.
If you look at the choreography of “The West Wing,†it was always set up so that it would move and move and move.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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