play by ear

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play by ear - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "play by ear":
     accompany, ad-lib, be caught napping, be surprised,
     be taken unawares, be unprepared, chord, concertize, cook up,
     dash off, do, do offhand, execute, extemporize, fake,
     go off half-cocked, have no plan, improvisate, improvise,
     interpret, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, make music, make up,
     perform, play, render, scrap the plan, strike off, symphonize,
     throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, vamp, whip up,
     whomp up, wing it