Where does the term “winging it” come from and what does it mean?
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it means give it a try and do your best.
No, that’s not it. Keep trying.
Winging it means complaining about something. And comes from the Scottish language.
Nope, that’s not it. Keep trying.
You’ve already done this one, it comes from learning the lines quickly in “the WINGS” of a theatre.
It means making it up on the go, by the way.
Incorrect, but close.
Keep trying.
Authors have long used ‘wing’ as a verb and referred to birds that ‘winged their way’.
Nope, keep trying.
I swear I’ve seen this one before…
I believe in around the Shakespearean times (?), they didn’t have understudies. So if a fellow actor fell sick for a performance, or something of the sort, another would have to quickly learn their lines in the wings of the stage before quickly going out and performing, right then and there.
Winging it.
Very very close but nobody has nailed it yet. Keep trying.
It comes from when a character in a show didn’t learn their character well, so would rely to someone on the wings to help them.
Exactly correct, Robin Sparkles.
When an actor would forget his line, somebody would whisper it to him from the wings.
You are today’s winner.