0 If you do something on a wing and a prayer, you do it hoping that you will succeed, although you are not prepared enough for it:
It has been operating on a wing and a prayer, but it will now have powers under the legislation.
That is economics on a wing and a prayer.
Is that known as living on a wing and a prayer?
We believe in inward investment, but we shall have a coherent strategy for it all, rather than getting by on a wing and a prayer.
Far too many hospitals are—to coin a phrase—flying on a wing and a prayer with regard to their incineration capabilities.
We are on a wing and a prayer.
Any commitment to the regional alternative will be on a wing and a prayer.
It will never make a large profit and has always performed on a wing and a prayer.