Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
seat of the pants approach
English answer:
doing it by instinct, finding out as you go along
English term
and instead I adopted the seat of the pants approach to parenting
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Tony M
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Jul 17, 2012 05:36: Tony M Created KOG entry
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doing it by instinct, finding out as you go along
I believe it comes from early aeronautical slang, when people would "fly by the seat of their pants" — i.e. just manage to get by using instinct and gut feeling, rather than more formal methods.
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