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rough-and-ready, a.
Also unhyphened.
1. Of things: Not elaborately or carefully ordered, contrived, or finished; just good enough to serve the purpose.
1810F. J. Jackson in Sir G. Jackson Diaries & Lett. (1873) I. 120 A more rough and ready state of things..than we had before been accustomed to. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xlv, The hunting establishment was of the rough and ready order. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 222 The rough-and-ready compass so invaluable to the navigator.
Comb.1856Stonehenge Brit. Rur. Sports 414/1 Sharp spurs are on the heels—rough and ready-looking prads these.
2. Of persons: Ready to take things as they come; not finical or particular; working in a rough but prompt and effective manner.
1843in Amer. Speech (1965) XL. 132 But Rough and Ready made dem smell Gunpowder a la Poker. 1846Congress. Globe 24 May 865 Col. [Zachary] Taylor..had won for himself by his gallant conduct in the field the soubriquet of ‘Old Rough and Ready’. 1849E. E. Napier Exp. S. Afr. I. 163 If you can catch a sober, rough-and-ready ‘Totty’, who is able to..put his hand to any thing. 1870W. Thornbury Tour round Eng. I. ii. 44 In a few days his rough and ready hand was on their collars. 1894F. M. Elliot Roman Gossip iv. 94 A sort of leer, as of a rough-and-ready cynic.
3. Of manner, etc.: Roughly efficient or effective, without entering into minutiæ or observing a regular procedure.
1860Emerson Cond. Life ii. (1861) 39 The rough and ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers, and mechanics. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. 495 A rough and ready way of repaying themselves. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 880 Instead of all this rough-and-ready turbulence, relays of attendants should be..organized.
Hence rough-and-readiness.
1956Essays in Crit. VI. 185 Beliefs that allow Pound to be satisfied..with a surprising emotional rough-and-readiness. 1960Guardian 30 Nov. 7/1 The rough-and-readiness of such Italian neo-realists as Rossellini. |