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rough edges

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rough edges
1. if a piece of work or a performance has rough edges, some parts of it are not of very good quality. He's a great footballer, but his game still has a few rough edges.
2. if a person has rough edges, they do not always behave well and politely. I knew him before he was successful, and he had a lot of rough edges back then.
See also: edge, rough

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Again he listened, fancying he heard a distant sound in the house; then he felt in his pocket for a match, and kneeling down, passed its light slowly over the rough edges of snow about the doorstep.
 
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