quick-and-dirty
quick-and-dirty · quick-and-dirties
An inexpensive, inelegant eateryAn inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
Meaning
2 senses(US, slang)An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
(idiomatic)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.
Origin
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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