crapshoot
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Ask any job applicant or manager about the hiring process today, and he or she will probably say the same thing: It’s pretty much a crapshoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
“It’s just a crapshoot based on physiology,” Lesch said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
And while high costs are certain, future returns are a crapshoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
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 ● May 14, 2025
“The reality is the transfer portal, to me it’s a bigger crapshoot than a high school kid,” Fickell said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
As a Senator from Kansas, Vice President Curtis himself perfected a sort of crapshooting style of finger-snapping that was the envy of younger Senators.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Herald Tribune straightway called for a coordinator of crapshooting; the New York Daily News, for a coordinator of gin-rummy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an Army chaplain in World War I, Parson Spence discouraged crapshooting in camp by rolling sevens himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello.
From Time Magazine Archive
That brought up tales of the old games, poker, faro, three card monte, blackjack, roulette—and crapshooting.
From Noble Redman by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
