hit or miss
Unpredictably good sometimes
Hit or miss describes something inconsistent or unpredictable in quality or success—sometimes good, sometimes not.
The restaurant's food is hit or miss.
Reviews for the new album have been hit or miss.
The phrase suggests outcomes that vary randomly, like shots that sometimes find their target and sometimes don't.
- roll the diceAccept uncertain outcome
- gambleStake on uncertain outcome
- take a shotMake an attempt
- touch and goDangerously uncertain situation
- fifty fiftyEqually divided between two
scattershot · chance · streaky · wager · uncertainty · variability · randomness · trial and error · wing it · patchy · crapshoot · unpredictability · pot luck · serendipity · sink or swim · all or nothing · mistake · hot and cold
- Either/Oryes or no, true or false, on or off, in or out, up or down
- chancechance, luck, lottery, dice, randomness
- Inconsistencywishy-washy, flip-flop, fickle, unreliable, unpredictable
- baseballbaseball, bat, pitchers, catchers, pitcher
- infrequencyrarely, seldom, infrequent, infrequently, occasionally
- ratingsA rating, rating, one star, five stars, rating scale
hit or missconsistent
Not varying or contradicting
reliable · dependable · steady · predictable · unfailing
hit or misssystematic
Following ordered procedures
methodical · deliberate · precise · scientific · calculated
hit or missguaranteed
Promised with certainty
certain · surefire · sure thing · fail-safe · can't miss
hit, miss, missing, missed, hitting, hits, misses, hitter, hitters