seat-of-the-pants
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˌsiːt.əv.ðəˈpænts/ us/ˌsiːt.əv.ðəˈpænts/
informal凭感觉的，凭本能的，凭经验的
done using only your own experience and trusting your own judgment
She has a seat-of-the-pants ability to find the best way out of a crisis. 她有一种直觉性的能力，能够找到摆脱危机的最佳方法。
See: seat
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- This seat-of-the-pants approach, however, is sowing lots of confusion.
- A lot of this is intuitive, seat-of-the-pants stuff.
- His may have been the first seat-of-the-pants presidency, with no organization charts and crucial decisions made in late-night bull sessions.
- It's been a curious series - rather more seat-of-the-pants than usual, which is no bad thing.
- Our seat-of-the-pants method led us straight into the dot.com revolution.