Sometimes, though, you may just have to exit with the best strategy you can come up with at the moment, even if it means that your exit isn’t that clean or graceful, recognizing that the long-term outcomes of staying the course are worse. If a solid exit strategy isn’t forthcoming, one tactic is to throw a Hail Mary pass, a last-ditch, long-shot final effort for a successful outcome. The concept comes from a final touchdown attempt in American football where the quarterback throws a really long pass into the end zone in the hope of scoring the final game-winning points. The phrasing became
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