seat

Related to seat: drivers seat, mercy seat

by the seat of (one's) pants

Without a clear plan or direction. Often used in the phrase "fly by the seat of (one's) pants." I know my parents think that I'm just flying by the seat of my pants ever since I dropped out of college, but I just signed with a record label and am launching my singing career!
See also: by, of, pant, seat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

seat

n. the buttocks. I was so angry. I wanted to kick him in the seat as he left.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (Is) this taken?
  • (sitting) in the catbird seat
  • (someone) needs to take several seats
  • a back-seat driver
  • a ringside seat
  • backseat driver
  • be (sitting) in the catbird seat
  • be in the catbird seat
  • be in the driving seat
  • be sitting in the catbird seat
  • box seat
  • bums in seats
  • bums on seats
  • by the seat of (one's) pants
  • by the seat of one's pants
  • by the seat of pants
  • by the seat of the pants
  • by the seat of your pants
  • catbird seat
  • catbird seat, (sitting) in the
  • fly by the seat of (one's) pants
  • fly by the seat of your pants
  • grab a chair
  • grab a seat
  • have a ringside seat
  • have a ringside seat/view
  • have a ringside view
  • have a seat
  • hot seat
  • hot seat, in the
  • in the box seat
  • in the catbird seat
  • in the driver’s seat
  • in the driver's seat
  • in the driving seat
  • in the hot seat
  • in/on the hot seat
  • keep (one) on the edge of (one's) seat
  • keep (one's) (something) warm
  • keep (one's) seat
  • keep chair
  • keep somebody's seat, etc. warm
  • keep you on the edge of your seat
  • kick in the (seat of the) pants, a
  • kick in the seat of the pants
  • nosebleed seat
  • nosebleed seats
  • on the anxious seat
  • on the edge of (one's) chair
  • on the edge of (one's) seat
  • on the edge of seat
  • on the edge of your seat
  • on the edge of your seat/chair
  • on the hot seat
  • put (one) on the hot seat
  • ringside seat
  • seat
  • seat of one's/the pants, by the
  • seat of the pants, by the
  • seat-of-the-pants
  • show (one) to (one's) seat
  • show (one) to (something or some place)
  • show to a seat
  • sit on the edge of (one's) seat
  • take (one's) seat
  • take a back seat
  • take a backseat
  • take a seat
  • Take your seat
  • the catbird seat
References in classic literature
"With all my heart," said the young man, and without waiting for more pressing he seated himself on the trunk of a felled oak, and tuning his rebeck, presently began to sing to these words.
Don Quixote
Then he said to Melanthius the goatherd, "Look sharp, light a fire in the court, and set a seat hard by with a sheep skin on it; bring us also a large ball of lard, from what they have in the house.
Odyssey
By the time he recovered his seat, Bob was in full career, bolting the way he had come, and making Wolf side-jump to the bushes.
Burning Daylight
Yes, he must bring out seats and food for both, and in serving us present not ewer and napkin with more show of respect to the one than to the other."
Connecticut Yankee
"Goodness!" she cried, grasping the iron rail of the seat. "What was that?"
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Until his parent was placed comfortably in bed, with Natty seated at his side, Effingham did not quit him.
Pioneers
The chief were those who from the Pit of Hell Roaming to seek their prey on earth, durst fix Their Seats long after next the Seat of God, Their Altars by his Altar, Gods ador'd Among the Nations round, and durst abide JEHOVAH thundring out of SION, thron'd Between the Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within his Sanctuary it self their Shrines, Abominations; and with cursed things His holy Rites, and solemn Feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light.
Paradise Lost
Graham would not allow - the young widow and her son alighted, relinquishing the driver's seat to Rose; and I persuaded Eliza to take the latter's place.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Surely it was an evil omen, this man's coming; for it was Captain Francis who had taken the vacant seat and who was watching his astonishment with a somewhat saturnine smile.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
The cock-of-the-roost sits aloft like Jupiter on an unsharable seat, holding your fate between two thongs of inconstant leather.
The Four Million
He came strolling down the gravel-walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
At the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across the harbour to the East Cliff, in the hope or fear, I don't know which, of seeing Lucy in our favorite seat.
Dracula
When, having obtained permission, she walked to the water pail in the corner and drank from the dipper, unseen forces dragged Seesaw from his seat to go and drink after her.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
"My child," said he, "take your seat in front of me that you may see your former husband, your kinsmen and your friends.
Iliad
High above his head he held the spear, as though in the act to strike; one bony hand rested on the stone table before him, in the position a man assumes on rising from his seat, whilst his frame was bent forward so that the vertebrae of the neck and the grinning, gleaming skull projected towards us, and fixed its hollow eye-places upon us, the jaws a little open, as though it were about to speak.
King Solomons Mines