Meaning of A SHOT IN THE DARK - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So in English when we say something is a shot in the dark it means that it is a guess.

It means that you don't know the answer but you decided that you would take a guess.

So maybe someone asks you a very complex and difficult math question, and you aren't sure

what the answer is, you could just take a shot in the dark, you could just guess.

So maybe they say, "What's 10 x 5?", and maybe you're not really good at math and you're

not sure what 10x5 is, you might just think, "I'll take a shot in the dark and I'll say

50, and I'll hope I get it right."

So again in English a shot in the dark is like a guess.

I think it's from a long time ago when people had guns and if you shot into the dark you

would be lucky if you hit something.