garbage in, garbage out
mainly US sayingsomething you say that means that something produced from materials of low quality will also be of low quality:
The meals are pretty poor but then they never use fresh ingredients - garbage in, garbage out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- of sorts idiom
- tacky
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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