Somewhere to play.

the middle;

Notes:
Shots in the dark ...

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Meaning

A hopeful attempt.
Origin

The term 'shot' has been slang for an attempt since the middle of the 19th century; for example, this piece from Joseph Hewlett's comic work Peter Priggins, the college scout, 1841:

"After waiting for a little while, Ninny... made a shot, and went so near the mark."

'A shot in the dark' is simply a hopeful attempt to hit an enemy that you can't see.

George Bernard Shaw seems to have been the first to use it metaphorically, in The Saturday Review, February 1895:

"1 Never did man make a worse shot in the dark."

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Here I am, and I still ass-u-me, I assume that I know what I am doing.

As far as is known, most of the paperwork is done.

Now it up to the system to start the 'due process of law'.

Now I start to worry, for this I cannot control, and from what I have experienced to date, worrying will be a wasted effort, yet - this I will do, I will worry.

Hence, the shot in the dark, and it may cost a pretty penny.


The middle -

Where is the middle ?

We are born, then we depart, and somewhere in-between is the middle.

The proof thereof is quite elementary - ask anyone who is busy with something, and the answer might well be;

"I am in the middle of something ..."

Now that is where the middle is, in the middle of something.

I am still in the middle of what I am busy with.

Ass-U-Me

"Assume the position"

Immediately many people will know what to do;

as·sume (-sm)
tr.v. as·sumed, as·sum·ing, as·sumes
1. To take upon oneself: assume responsibility; assume another's debts.
2. To undertake the duties of (an office): assumed the presidency.
3. To take on; adopt: "The god assumes a human form" (John Ruskin).
4. To put on; don: The queen assumed a velvet robe.
5. To affect the appearance or possession of; feign.
6. To take for granted; suppose: assumed that prices would rise. See Synonyms at presume.
7. To take over without justification; seize: assume control.
8. To take up or receive into heaven.

I am guilty as charged; I assume - as in the verb - "He assumed; again !"

And does that land me in a lot of mire; why, only the other day; again !

It happens when a person tends to be in a position of authority.
One has to make decisions at all levels when one is the final voice, well, that is what I think.

Then there are those who would disagree, and as Dickens said through the mouth of Mr. Bumble:
" ...the law is a ass — a idiot. ... "

for even the law assumes, one is innocent till proven guilty.




tbc - to be continued