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wing it

Date: Jun 24 2010

Themes: Music, Romance, School

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Quote

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“I’m just going to wing it. I didn’t prepare for anything.”

- Jason before choir practice, a test and a date.

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Definition

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improvise, act without a plan

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Not planning ahead has advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, you end up doing something exciting that you never thought you could or would do because you didn’t plan. But other times, not planning can get you in trouble.

If you’re not prepared for something, it means you’ll just have to wing it. To wing it is to do the best you can without a plan.

Today, Jason has a big day ahead of him, but he intends to wing it all day. He practices singing with Dale, but does a terrible job because he didn’t prepare. Then he takes a test. Beren studied all night. Jason wings it and believes he did very well. Then he has a date with Devan. She hoped he would make reservations at a fancy restaurant. Too bad Jason planned to wing it.

The phrase wing it comes from the theater. When actors didn’t memorize their lines before the start of the play, the would study them in the wings, or the sides of the stage, where the audience can’t see.

Have you ever had to wing it? How did it go?

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“The politician did not prepare a speech. She decided to wing it.”

“When the plan didn’t work, the team had to wing it. “

“I forgot to bring the directions, so we’ll just have to wing it. “

Winners

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	do something without preparation by williamwang
	to wing means to go unprepared to do something by monacovalentina
	to do sth without planning or preparing it first by chomo
	Perform without preparation, improvise by VadimATP
	it's the same as to improvise.. by penguiiin
	wing it : to do something without planning or preparing it by majid_jjs
	to improvise by Miss Talant

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zaheer abbas

Pakistan

to give a challenge for some thing

fabiojulix

Brazil

it's the same as to improvise

m_mahboob

Pakistan

Wing it means to do something without preparation and I think we can also say spontaneous

world english

Tunisia

Really sometimes you just get bored of carrying on a schedule where you organise what you want to do every hour in a day. We can't deny that it's good to prepare everything ahead to accomplish a certain task; but actually this is the outstanding source of stress-the worldwide illness-. "Wing it" is a kind of breaking out from daily routine and doing something exciting and adventurous.

What is worthy living for if there is nothing adventitous that spices up your life!