hit-and-miss

From the hit and miss nature of conception to all the dangers associated with pregnancy, it's often amazing that any babies are born at all.

There was no planning to it. It was just hit and miss.

Experiments have suggested that this approach is hit-and-miss , with some organisations more proactive than others.

The quality of inquests used to be hit and miss, with local lawyers and doctors serving as coroners.

My weight-loss efforts these last couple of years have been hit-and-miss, as I've struggled to find something that works for me.

I always say that body language is a bit hit and miss for deception detection.

Market moves since the introduction of the Cobolli Gigli-Blanc-Secco triad have, after all, been rather hit and miss.

picking a remedy can be a bit hit-and-miss.

Barnum understood that hit-and-miss advertising doesn't work, but a consistent message, told over and over, hits its mark .

George didn't know which house on the street was Jane's, so he began ringing doorbells hit and miss.

"It was totally hit and miss, " says Rosemary Osborne of Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Getting a response online can be a hit-and-miss affair.

Your proposition is based partly on fact and partly on imagination-in other words, it's rather hit and miss.

CCACHE_LOGFILE -- If set, tells ccache to record the hit and miss statistics from the cache in this file.

Hence the hit-and-miss results of the big publishers of video games.

Windows 7 tries to handle touch operation but it is still hit and miss.

But the results are hit and miss.

The process was very hit and miss, however.

The experiment went wrong because of hit-and-miss methods.

I can be a bit hit and miss sometimes but when I do anything I like to try and do it well.