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The meaning of Polish 'doing something on knees' or 'on a knee' is completely different than English:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/on-your-knees
It is rather a metaphor to a student who instead of doing his homework properly at the home, he did it in hurry, supported his notebook on knees and did it in a short break between classes.
In other words it means doing something in hurry, usually resulting in poor quality and unsophisticated enough.
Some usage:
Who designed this building? Looks like some architect 'made it on a knee'...
Or nowadays according to software engineering:
There are lots of bugs in this application! They came short on deadlines and 'wrote it on their knees' even without unit tests...
My question is, is there an English equivalent (in idiom or phrase) which preserves this meaning better?
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The meaning of Polish 'doing something on knees' or 'on a knee' is completely different than English:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/on-your-knees
It is rather a metaphor to a student who instead of doing his homework properly at the home, he did it in hurry, supported his notebook on knees and did it in a short break between classes.
In other words it means doing something in hurry, usually resulting in poor quality and unsophisticated enough.
Some usage:
Who designed this building? Looks like some architect 'made it on a knee'...
Or nowadays according to software engineering:
There are lots of bugs in this application! They came short on deadlines and 'wrote it on their knees' even without unit tests...
My question is, is there an English equivalent (in idiom or phrase) which preserves this meaning better?
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The meaning of Polish 'doing something on knees' or 'on a knee' is completely different than English:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/on-your-knees
It is rather a metaphor to a student who instead of doing his homework properly at the home, he did it in hurry, supported his notebook on knees and did it in a short break between classes.
In other words it means doing something in hurry, usually resulting in poor quality and unsophisticated enough.
Some usage:
Who designed this building? Looks like some architect 'made it on a knee'...
Or nowadays according to software engineering:
There are lots of bugs in this application! They came short on deadlines and 'wrote it on their knees' even without unit tests...
My question is, is there an English equivalent (in idiom or phrase) which preserves this meaning better?
phrase-requests idiom-requests foreign-phrases
asked 1 hour ago
mpasko256
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The meaning of Polish 'doing something on knees' or 'on a knee' is completely different than English:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/on-your-knees
It is rather a metaphor to a student who instead of doing his homework properly at the home, he did it in hurry, supported his notebook on knees and did it in a short break between classes.
In other words it means doing something in hurry, usually resulting in poor quality and unsophisticated enough.
Some usage:
Who designed this building? Looks like some architect 'made it on a knee'...
Or nowadays according to software engineering:
There are lots of bugs in this application! They came short on deadlines and 'wrote it on their knees' even without unit tests...
My question is, is there an English equivalent (in idiom or phrase) which preserves this meaning better?
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quick and dirty
ADJECTIVE
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informal
Makeshift; done or produced hastily.
‘a quick and dirty synopsis of their work’
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I think the closest equivalent (the one I thought of immediately!) would be a "botch job", sometimes pronounced "bodge job".
This describes something that has been botched (carried out carelessly/bungled) and the resulting object or piece of work is a botch job.
Example: "Who designed that building? Looks like the architect made a botch job of it".
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cobble together (or cobble up):
To make something or put something together hastily or carelessly.
Who cobbled this thing up? Take it apart and start over.
The kids cobbled up their model planes badly.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
However, I think there is a small nuance that sets these two expressions apart.
While the Slavic "on a knee" is almost exclusively used to criticise the end result, the English "cobble together" feels more like a somewhat neutral statement of the fact that the work was done hastily and with no due diligence, leaving the final judgement of whether that hastiness was justified or not to the listener. After all, if a flash flood comes, a cobbled together raft is better than no raft at all.
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quick and dirty
ADJECTIVE
US
informal
Makeshift; done or produced hastily.
‘a quick and dirty synopsis of their work’
oxforddictionaries.com
answered 33 mins ago
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quick and dirty
ADJECTIVE
US
informal
Makeshift; done or produced hastily.
‘a quick and dirty synopsis of their work’
oxforddictionaries.com
answered 33 mins ago
GEdgar
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quick and dirty
ADJECTIVE
US
informal
Makeshift; done or produced hastily.
‘a quick and dirty synopsis of their work’
oxforddictionaries.com
answered 33 mins ago
GEdgar
12.3k21942
quick and dirty
ADJECTIVE
US
informal
Makeshift; done or produced hastily.
‘a quick and dirty synopsis of their work’
oxforddictionaries.com
answered 33 mins ago
GEdgar
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answered 33 mins ago
GEdgar
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answered 33 mins ago
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answered 33 mins ago
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I think the closest equivalent (the one I thought of immediately!) would be a "botch job", sometimes pronounced "bodge job".
This describes something that has been botched (carried out carelessly/bungled) and the resulting object or piece of work is a botch job.
Example: "Who designed that building? Looks like the architect made a botch job of it".
answered 1 hour ago
Tim Foster
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I think the closest equivalent (the one I thought of immediately!) would be a "botch job", sometimes pronounced "bodge job".
This describes something that has been botched (carried out carelessly/bungled) and the resulting object or piece of work is a botch job.
Example: "Who designed that building? Looks like the architect made a botch job of it".
answered 1 hour ago
Tim Foster
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I think the closest equivalent (the one I thought of immediately!) would be a "botch job", sometimes pronounced "bodge job".
This describes something that has been botched (carried out carelessly/bungled) and the resulting object or piece of work is a botch job.
Example: "Who designed that building? Looks like the architect made a botch job of it".
answered 1 hour ago
Tim Foster
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I think the closest equivalent (the one I thought of immediately!) would be a "botch job", sometimes pronounced "bodge job".
This describes something that has been botched (carried out carelessly/bungled) and the resulting object or piece of work is a botch job.
Example: "Who designed that building? Looks like the architect made a botch job of it".
answered 1 hour ago
Tim Foster
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answered 1 hour ago
Tim Foster
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cobble together (or cobble up):
To make something or put something together hastily or carelessly.
Who cobbled this thing up? Take it apart and start over.
The kids cobbled up their model planes badly.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
However, I think there is a small nuance that sets these two expressions apart.
While the Slavic "on a knee" is almost exclusively used to criticise the end result, the English "cobble together" feels more like a somewhat neutral statement of the fact that the work was done hastily and with no due diligence, leaving the final judgement of whether that hastiness was justified or not to the listener. After all, if a flash flood comes, a cobbled together raft is better than no raft at all.
answered 1 hour ago
undercat
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cobble together (or cobble up):
To make something or put something together hastily or carelessly.
Who cobbled this thing up? Take it apart and start over.
The kids cobbled up their model planes badly.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
However, I think there is a small nuance that sets these two expressions apart.
While the Slavic "on a knee" is almost exclusively used to criticise the end result, the English "cobble together" feels more like a somewhat neutral statement of the fact that the work was done hastily and with no due diligence, leaving the final judgement of whether that hastiness was justified or not to the listener. After all, if a flash flood comes, a cobbled together raft is better than no raft at all.
answered 1 hour ago
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cobble together (or cobble up):
To make something or put something together hastily or carelessly.
Who cobbled this thing up? Take it apart and start over.
The kids cobbled up their model planes badly.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
However, I think there is a small nuance that sets these two expressions apart.
While the Slavic "on a knee" is almost exclusively used to criticise the end result, the English "cobble together" feels more like a somewhat neutral statement of the fact that the work was done hastily and with no due diligence, leaving the final judgement of whether that hastiness was justified or not to the listener. After all, if a flash flood comes, a cobbled together raft is better than no raft at all.
answered 1 hour ago
undercat
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cobble together (or cobble up):
To make something or put something together hastily or carelessly.
Who cobbled this thing up? Take it apart and start over.
The kids cobbled up their model planes badly.
(McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs)
However, I think there is a small nuance that sets these two expressions apart.
While the Slavic "on a knee" is almost exclusively used to criticise the end result, the English "cobble together" feels more like a somewhat neutral statement of the fact that the work was done hastily and with no due diligence, leaving the final judgement of whether that hastiness was justified or not to the listener. After all, if a flash flood comes, a cobbled together raft is better than no raft at all.
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