quick-and-dirty
quick-and-dirty · quick-and-dirties
An inexpensive, inelegant eateryAn inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
Значення
значень: 2(США, сленг)An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
(ідіома)A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like.
The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes.
Походження
The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first usage of this phrase in 1896 in the Boston GThe Oxford English Dictionary shows the first usage of this phrase in 1896 in the Boston Globe to describe a place to eat. The first use meaning "slipshod" was from 1939 in the gun-slinging, American Western fiction paperback, "Bounty Guns" by Luke Short.
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