| 单词 | hay-wire outfit |
| 释义 | > as lemmashay-wire outfit 1. Poorly equipped, roughly contrived, inefficient, esp. hay-wire outfit (from the practice of using hay-wire for makeshift repairs). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together cloutedc1380 bodged1519 botched1537 tinkerly?1576 tinker-like1596 cobbled1798 botchy1843 bodgie1905 haywire1905 bodgied1974 bodgied-up1988 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 39 Hay wire outfit, a contemptuous term for loggers with poor logging equipment. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 207 A haywire outfit is something that is all tied and patched together. 1934 Notes & Queries 166 13/1 I first heard ‘hay~wire’ in the summer of 1929, when I was living in northern New York State. There is also the expression ‘haywire outfit’, a job on which poor living accommodations are provided for the workers. Also an inefficient factory or shop. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 388/2 A haywire, unpredictable, one-man business. 1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 145 The..irritating, because man-made, chaos attendant on the intrusion of a haywire railroad into the ordered life of the frontier now lay behind them. < as lemmas |
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