to depend on something such as luck or chance to help you to achieve something, usually because you have no other choice
Again, trusting to instinct normally does the job just fine.
Far better and safer to trust to human instinct.
For her own part, though, she preferred not to trust to luck.
I’m trusting to luck that the shops will be open.
The answer is not to think too hard or worry about getting questions wrong but to trust to instinct.
The recommendation of a friend is best, otherwise you trust to luck.
You can be as prepared as you want, but at some point you have to trust to instinct.
trusts to
trusting to
trusted to
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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