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词汇 crapshoot
释义 crapshoot
noun[ Cusually singular ]
USinformal(alsocrap shoot, crap-shoot)uk /ˈkræp.ʃuːt/ us /ˈkræp.ʃuːt/
something whose result could be good or bad but is impossible to predict or control, because so much chance is involved:
Almost every aspect of the music business is a crapshoot.
It's hard to accept that life can be a crapshoot, where bad things happen to good people for no reason.
Starting up a new magazine is a crap shoot at the best of times.
Predicting the outcome of the tournament is pretty much a crap-shoot.
Related word
crapsUS
From an investment point of view it's a crapshoot.
For too long, trying to get across town using public transport has been a crapshoot for people with disabilities.
"Movies are much bigger crapshoots than TV," he says.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrarily
arbitrariness
coincidence
even money
fluke
fluky
fortuitous
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
non-purposive
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something
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