at rovers

prepositional phrase

at random.

“shooting at rovers”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. obsoleteat random.

    shooting at rovers

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    Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers.

    1551 Raphe Robynson translation of Thomas More's Utopia T. F. Didbin's 1808 edition, Vol.2 Ch.9 p.161

    You must always give your men of great reading leave to show their talents on the meanest subjects, says Eugenius ; it is a kind of shooting at rovers : where a man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim, to show his strength.

    1726, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals: Especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets
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