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Example of ellipsis in a shot in the dark

Answer 1

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The phrase ‘A Shot in the Dark’ means a very general attempt; a wild guess.

You can use ‘a shot in the dark’ to describe a situation that has a small chance of success.

Example of Use: “That was such a difficult question! How did you get it right?” Reply: “I just took a shot in the dark.”

Interesting fact

People have been using the term 'shot' in reference to 'attempt' since the mid-19th century; in Joseph Hewlett’s 1841 comedy Peter Priggins, the College Scout, we read: “After waiting for a little while, Ninny made a shot, and went so near the mark.” The origin of the idiom 'a shot in the dark' isn’t specifically known; George Bernard Shaw was first to use it in print in the February, 1895 Saturday Review: “Never did man make a worse shot in the dark.”

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Shot in the dark is used where there is little information about something or in situations where there are little chances of success.

Ellipsis is a literary tool that is used by writers when they deliberately want to skip some lines or information from the text and make the readers guess on their own.

Usage of ellipsis and shot in the dark

"This is an ellipsis piece of writing, but i shot in the dark to guess the missing information and to my surpise my guess was on the dot"