Meaning of need more time in the oven | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a project or an idea, to be insufficiently polished or thought out; requiring more time to attain acceptable quality.

figuratively

Examples

“Their draft of the new business case doesn't yet say enough about the market research they've done — it clearly needs more time in the oven.”

“Though Jevons's theory was more than half-baked, it needed more time in the oven, since he forgot to calculate that poor harvests in Asia would hit England only after a time lag.”

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