to fudge together
- phrasal verb
- /fʌdʒ təˈɡɛðər/
- Informal
:
preparar a la carrera
- The report was clearly fudged together to meet the deadline, with many errors left uncorrected.
Examples
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We had to fudge together a meal from whatever we found in the fridge.
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They fudged together a plan at the last minute without considering the consequences.
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Don't fudge together your homework just to finish it!
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They fudged together a presentation at the last minute.
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The team fudged together a presentation in a hurry, leaving out important details.
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She fudged together a costume from old clothes for the party at the last moment.
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He fudged together a birthday cake using ingredients he had on hand.
Synonyms
22
3.5
Make something quickly without much care or planning
21
5.3
To put things together quickly and roughly using what is available
16
5.2
Make something quickly and roughly from things you have
3
6.0
Make something quickly without caring about details
2
5.4
To make a mistake especially by forgetting words on stage
2
3.4
Mix a few ingredients quickly without much preparation
1
4.9
Make something quickly that will not last long
1
6.5
To gather small amounts of money, food, or a few people with difficulty to do something
To put something together quickly and without care
To make something quickly and without care using what you have
To make something quickly and roughly using what is available
To join parts quickly in a careless, temporary way
To get a small amount of something quickly with little money or time
To make a clumsy temporary fix quickly
Do a job badly so it does not work
How Well Made
170
3.2
169
2.9
- Informal
- Informal
22
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'fudge' (to tamper with or handle imprecisely) plus 'together' (to combine) gives learners a reasonable cue that items are being cobbled or made in an ad hoc way, so some meaning can be inferred. However, because 'fudge' also carries a strong sense of falsifying and the precise nuance of 'hastily and carelessly producing/assembling' is not fully predictable from the parts alone, the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Fudge together may come from the image of quickly mixing the soft sweet fudge from whatever is at hand, making a rough, messy lump. That's why to fudge something together means to make it 'quickly and carelessly', without much attention to detail.