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automatic pilot
noun
- Also calledautopilot a device that automatically maintains an aircraft on a preset course
- on automatic pilot informal.acting without conscious thought because of tiredness, shock, or familiarity with the task being performed
Word History and Origins
Origin of automatic pilot1
Idioms and Phrases
- on automatic pilot, functioning in an unthinking or reflexive manner.
Example Sentences
Tell them that true friendship does not thrive on an automatic pilot.
Sherman flattened out, and without paying any attention to direction, snapped in the automatic pilot and reached for his gun.
Without orders, without clearance papers, without an automatic pilot check.
By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot.
He punched down the keys, and sat back to wait for the automatic pilot to carry him out from Earth.
The pilot took over manual control from the automatic pilot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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