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語源

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.

発音

形容詞

quick-and-dirty (comparative more quick-and-dirty, superlative most quick-and-dirty)

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

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

同意語

• slipshod

名詞

quick-and-dirty (plural quick-and-dirties)

1. (US, slang) An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
2. (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.

参考

• rough-and-ready
• shake and bake

参照

• “quick-and-dirty”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.