to throw together
22
3.5
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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- Oh, it was just sort of thrown together.
Yeah, take all that material stuff and throw it all together.
- Yeah, take all that material stuff and throw it all together.
- So it's literally just throwing things together and the flavours come from the foods.
- That stuff is great and easy to throw together.
- It just throws together text and math symbols that look more or less plausible.
- Hiring good people is important, but part of that is it's not just that, OK, if we hire a bunch of smart people and throw them together and let them do things.
- Like if I'm doing one that's ham and Swiss, I'm just going to cut the ham and the Swiss and just throw it together into a container.
- So I just thought considering it's like the easiest thing and I do actually have ingredients that I can throw together to do this, I'll just show you on camera.
- Republican Party was for all of those things, but they threw together a coalition of frightened border state people.
- And that indeed is a good trope for romantic comedies, where people are thrown together and wouldn't have even thought that they'd like each other.
- I'm just going to tell you all of my thoughts kind of all thrown together at once, pros and cons, and let's just dive right in.
Examples
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Now they are just trying to throw together whatever they can and rush out a movie.
Blog text (21) -
Just a little something I threw together.
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Yeah, she said she could throw her stuff together... and be out of here in a few minutes.
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Oh, I'll throw something together here.
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I just threw it together.
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Anyone can format a Word document and throw together a few bullet points regarding their career experience.
Blog text (3) -
All of this is inspiring because it proves that anyone can throw something together.
Blog text (28) -
I threw together an enhancement programme, and it's almost done.
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My friend Fearless Jones helped me throw together some pine shelving, and I was in business.
Fiction book (2002) -
With just a few ingredients, you can throw together a quick salad for lunch.
Synonyms
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1.0
To make something by joining parts or materials
988
2.8
To make something by joining parts, like a model, plan or team
169
2.9
To put parts together to make something like a machine or toy
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
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
Make something quickly and carelessly 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
Antonyms
How Careful
- Informal
34
3.7
201
3.5
169
2.9
988
2.8
- Informal
22
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of combining or assembling is recoverable from 'throw' (extended to mean put/arrange) plus 'together' (in combination), so a learner who knows the constituents can partly infer that items are being brought together. However, the specific pragmatic nuance of doing this quickly and without much care is a metaphorical/usage-driven extension and not fully predictable from the literal meanings—learners may not reliably infer the haste/carelessness aspect without exposure.
Etymology
Throw together: The phrasal verb throw together comes from the simple image of literally tossing items into a bowl or pile when you are in a hurry. You throw items together quickly without care, so it means 'to make or assemble something quickly and without much care'.