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Definition

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

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In Context

  • "[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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Of an item, to fix or build it; often in a rough and ready fashion.

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Good enough.

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good enough to eat

Supremely beautiful; aesthetically pleasing.

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cut the mustard

To achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough; to s…

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good enough for government work

Synonym of close enough for government work.
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