quick-and-dirty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon. US,slang
  2. A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like. idiomatic
    — The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes.
形容词 adj.
  1. Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time. idiomatic
    — I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow.

词形变化

more quick-and-dirty comparative most quick-and-dirty superlative quick and dirty alternative quick-and-dirties plural quick and dirty alternative

词汇关系

相关词
rough-and-ready shake and bake

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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