crapshoot
Example Sentences
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“Candidly to some degree it can be a crapshoot.”
The MLB postseason, which begins on Tuesday, is often described as a “crapshoot”—a zany, monthlong gauntlet where chaos reigns supreme and the best team in the regular season rarely wins.
TSA has often been a crapshoot, risking pileups as travelers pulled laptops from carry-ons and novice vacationers struggled to untie their sneakers.
Everyone could use a more extensive palette of human possibility than the one supplied by the crapshoot of an immediate family.
From Los Angeles Times
The crapshoot of a 162-game season and unpredictable playoff format still looms too, especially for a team that frequently faltered in the postseason before finally prevailing last October.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
