jerry-built [
'dʒɛrɪ`bɪlt]
a. 偷工减料的
jerry-built[ adj ]
of inferior workmanship and materials
<adj.all>
mean little jerry-built houses
Jerry-built \Jer"ry-built`\, a.
1. Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built
houses.
Syn: slipshod, ramshackle, flimsy.
2. Developed in an unsystematic or inexpert manner; built
haphazardly; -- used of objects, organizations, plans,
etc.
[PJC]
- Something in the nature of a scientific experiment was carried out here Saturday night before about 13,000 witnesses in a jerry-built stadium in the Hilton Hotel's parking lot, and many times that number at home in HBO-land.