quick-and-dirty

短语

n. 快餐部

发音

AU

词形变化

quick-and-dirties 复数 quick-and-dirties more quick-and-dirty 比较级 most quick-and-dirty 最高级

别名

quick and dirty

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.

    美国 俚语
  2. 2.

    A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like.

    习语

    The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.

    习语

    I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow.

词源

The 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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