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Mar 2024
2m 13s

By the Seat of Your Pants

Danny Ballan
About this episode
Learn the meaning of the idiom "by the seat of your pants" and how to confidently use it to describe improvisation and instinctual action.

Find the full transcript of this episode and learn more about it on https://englishpluspodcast.com/by-the-seat-of-your-pants/

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