From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-10-26T08:16:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23374] Re: GUI / was [ANN] RubyInRubyParser 0.1-pre-alpha

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, markus liedl wrote:

> Give me an english lesson: 'take a stab'
> May that mean, that you just want to examine things and don't care about the
> result?

It means, "I'll try it but I don't necessarily expect to succeed".
Similar to "give it a shot".