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LEAP IN THE DARK

Specialty Definition: LEAP IN THE DARK

Domain	Definition
Literature	Leap in the Dark (A). Thomas Hobbes is reported to have said on his death-bed, "Now am I about to take my last voyage- a great leap in the dark." Rabelais, in his last moments, said, "I am going to the Great Perhaps." Lord Derby, in 1868, applied the words, "We are about to take a leap in the dark," to the Reform Bill. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: LEAP IN THE DARK

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	Leap in the dark; (rashness); road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape.
Experiment	Speculation, random shot, leap in the dark.
Intention	Speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke; (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit.
Rashness	Take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke.
	Gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket.
Uncertainty	Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: LEAP IN THE DARK

Specialty definitions using "LEAP IN THE DARK": Dying Sayings. (references)

Familiar Quotations: LEAP IN THE DARK

Author	Quotation
Author Unknown.	We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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Expressions: LEAP IN THE DARK

Expressions using "LEAP IN THE DARK": a leap in the dark ♦ take a leap in the dark. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: LEAP IN THE DARK

Language		Translations for "LEAP IN THE DARK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		ein Sprung ins Ungewisse (a leap in the dark). (various references)

Hungarian		sötétbe ugrás. (various references)

Pig Latin		eaplay inay ethay arkday

Romanian		salt în necunoscut. (various references)

Turkish		tehlikeli girişim (venture), sonu belirsiz atılım. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: LEAP IN THE DARK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-i-k-l-n-p-r-t"
	-2 letters: pentahedral.
	-3 letters: interplead, penetralia, pentahedra, threadlike.
	-4 letters: alienated, apartheid, deathlike, dekaliter, earthlike, headliner, heartland, herniated, inearthed, interpled, perinatal, pertained, phenakite, philander, philtered, printhead, repainted, replanted, tailender, trailhead, trephined.
	-5 letters: adherent, airplane, alienate, ankerite, anthelia, antheral, antherid, antileak, antirape, antlered, aperient, aphanite, aphelian, dakerhen, dateline, dentalia, depilate, detailer, detainer, dipteral, dipteran, earthpea, elaphine, elaterid, elaterin.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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