on a hunch

On a hunch, the scientists checked out the stars' orbital patterns and how they move across the sky.

The idea is to quickly sell them on a hunch then they will be able to buy the same number of them later for much cheaper before having to return them to the lender.

On a hunch, Swiss police officer Gilles Maeder measured the distance from Geneva Airport to the museum, to a French ferry port and then on to the brothers' London addresses - and back.

That flouts clearly established law, the comptroller’s office said, because officers cannot stop someone on a “hunch.”

The search was illegal, Saffari argued, probably based on a hunch that DeLeon might be armed because of his past criminal record and the area where he was stopped.