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more by luck than judgment

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by chance and not because of any special skill: "You did amazingly well to get the ball in." "Oh, it was more by luck than judgment."Chance and randomness
(Definition of more by luck than judgment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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