Meaning of rough and ready | Babel Free

Definitions

Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.

idiomatic

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Examples

“[A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.”

“There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]”

“"Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it."”

“Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).”

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