A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground.

To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.

(now chiefly UK) Alternative form of hit-or-miss

Try the same thing (or similar things) often enough, and, even if the general standard is poor, sometimes one will be successful.

(nautical) To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled; to cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it. / (by extension) To hurry away; to escape.

(education) The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, considered together.

If you do me a favor then I will do you a favor; quid pro quo.

(idiomatic, Britain) ordinary, standard.

Able to do as one pleases, unconstrained by social ties or responsibilities.

Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).