leap in the dark

Idioms  

1. An act whose results cannot be predicted. For example, Given today's high divorce rate, he considered marriage a leap in the dark. [Late 1600s]

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leap in the dark

At the moment, it is a leap in the dark.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

"Let's not break that backbone by taking a leap in the dark."

From BBC ● May 31, 2016

Foreign policy would also be a leap in the dark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2016

Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill When the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a leap in the dark for both of them.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

Have you no dread, not of the mere act of death—that is often a real ‘falling asleep,’ but of the leap in the dark, the unknown change, the mystery behind?”

From A Question of Marriage by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey