rough-and-ready
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- adjective
- /ˌrʌf ən ˈrɛdi/
- Informal
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rudimentario
- Look, it's a bit rough and ready, but it should hold.
And and Spanish jails were a bit rough and ready, you know.
- And and Spanish jails were a bit rough and ready, you know.
- So in a rough and ready way, what happens is that Putin has been ineffective, the boss of Russia for two decades.
Examples
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This rough-and-ready solution will work until we find something better.
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"We're a product of the rough-and-ready process of natural selection, and control of the expression of our genes has been left to other genes.
Fiction book (2000) -
Like I said, can't review those yet, but Toyota has shown images of them and they look pretty rough and ready to go.
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So in a rough and ready way, what happens is that Putin has been ineffective, the boss of Russia for two decades.
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This rough-and-ready rule can be tricked, of course.
Academic text (2001) -
So it'll be quite rough and ready, but I hope it'll be informative and and raise some questions for you.
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A rough-and-ready example drawn from the sibling sample will illustrate what I mean.
Academic text (1997) -
Arriving on the Harvard scene as an outlander, moreover, provided a greater range for self-advertisement, this time as the rough-and-ready Westerner, tough-minded and no-nonsense, coarse-grained but the genuine article.
Fiction book (2000) -
Although it looks rough-and-ready, this chair is surprisingly comfortable.
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His rough-and-ready approach to cooking produces delicious meals quickly.
Synonyms
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4.6
Made in a rough, simple way without skill
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8.5
Made quickly in a rough way that may not last
Shaped but not smoothed or fully finished
Antonyms
How Polished
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6.1
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3.7
- Informal
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6.6
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rough-and-ready comes from two simple words: rough meaning 'not smooth' and ready meaning 'prepared'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture something made quickly that is not perfect but is ready to use, so rough-and-ready means simple and not carefully finished but effective.