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rough and ready

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rough and ready
1. if you do something in a rough and ready way, you do it quickly and without preparing it carefully. I've done a rough and ready translation of the instructions. I hope it's clear enough.
2. not very polite or well educated. Just a warning about the men who work for him, they're a bit rough and ready.
See also: ready, rough

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He was rough and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and made him heartily welcome.
These rough and ready customers were not to be led by rules or frightened by precedents; they were not to be easily imposed upon, for the article they wanted was not to be easily counterfeited.
Instinct, as a rule, is very rough and ready, able to achieve its result under ordinary circumstances, but easily misled by anything unusual.
 
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