To act without due consideration.

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1846.  All I ask of the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Kennedy] who declared that in the action upon the Texas question “the West went it blind”—all that I ask of him is that he will not “go it blind” upon Oregon.—Mr. Bedinger of Virginia, House of Repr., Jan. 15: Cong. Globe, p. 120, App.

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1846.  The Senator from Michigan (Mr. Cass) was satisfied without evidence,—with nothing but newspaper reports. He was willing to “go it blind.”—Mr. Clayton of Delaware, in the U.S. Senate, May 12: id., p. 801.

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1862.  

        O little city-gals, don’t never go it
Blind on the word o’ noospaper or poet!
They ’re apt to puff, an’ May-day seldom looks
Up in the country ez it doos in books.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 6.    

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1866.  

        But I conclude they ’ve ’bout made up their mind
This ain’t the fittest time to go it blind.
Id., No. 11.    

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1875.  At the outset of the war I would not go it blind, and rush headlong into the war unprepared.—General Sherman’s ‘Memoirs,’ i. 342 (Bartlett).

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