- jerry-built adj
- ['dʒɛrɪˌbɪlt]
costruito con materiali scadenti
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jerry-built adj
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jerry-built — [adj] flimsy cheap, defective, insubstantial, jerry rigged, junky, makeshift, ramshackle, rickety, shoddy, slipshod, unsound, unsubstantial; concept 267 … New thesaurus
jerry-built — {adj.} 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. * /That jerry built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind./ 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; planned too quickly. * /When the regular television program didn… … Dictionary of American idioms
jerry-built — {adj.} 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. * /That jerry built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind./ 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; planned too quickly. * /When the regular television program didn… … Dictionary of American idioms
jerry-built — adj 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. That jerry built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind. 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; planned too quickly. When the regular television program didn t come on … Словарь американских идиом
jerry-built — 1869, in which jerry has a sense of bad, defective, probably a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy; Cf. Jerry sneak, mid 19c., sneaking fellow, a hen pecked husband [OED]). Or from or influenced by nautical slang… … Etymology dictionary
jerry-built — [jer′ē bilt΄] adj. [< JERRY (as an old generalized epithet, esp. of belittlement: cf. JACK), prob. reinforced by JURY2] built poorly, of cheap materials … English World dictionary
jerry-built — [[t]ʤe̱ri bɪlt[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe houses or blocks of flats as jerry built, you are critical of the fact that they have been built very quickly and cheaply, without much care for safety or quality. Workers at the plant… … English dictionary
jerry-built — jer′ry built adj. 1) built cheaply and flimsily; shoddy 2) contrived or developed in a haphazard fashion • Etymology: 1865–70; jerry, of uncert. orig. jer′ry build , v.t. built, build•ing. jer′ry build er, n … From formal English to slang
jerry-built — adj flimsy, unsubstantial, unsolid, unsound, unstable, weak, frail; defective, faulty, flawed; rickety, ramshackle, tumbledown, gimcrack, junky, cheap, shabby, sorry; slipshod, haphazard, thrown together, carelessly or sloppily built; improvised … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
jerry-built — /jer ee bilt /, adj. 1. built cheaply and flimsily. 2. contrived or developed in a haphazard, unsubstantial fashion, as a project or organization. [1865 70; jerry (as in JERRY BUILD) + BUILT] Syn. 1. ramshackle, rickety, shoddy, slipshod. * * * … Universalium
jerry-built — jer|ry built [ˈdʒeri ˌbılt] adj built cheaply, quickly, and badly … Dictionary of contemporary English
