| 单词 | botch-up job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbotch-up job Originally: a thing which has been cobbled together. Later: an act of spoiling a task through incompetence or ineptitude; a mismanaged or bungled attempt or undertaking; a mess-up. Also attributive as botch-up job. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or bungled work bodge1589 bodgery1592 Paul's work1602 botchery1608 by-work1615 botch1648 hob-job1857 spoil1892 botch-up1915 hack job1918 bodge job1924 bodge-up1959 bodge-up job1994 1915 Punch 149 398 This bedstead of yours is made up of several different periods...It's really too much of a botch-up to command much of a price. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 697 Goodwins botchup of a concert. 1926 Freeport (Illinois) Jrnl.-Standard 1 Dec. 1/2 They would be making a botch-up job of the affair if they bought a limited amount of equipment at this time. 1963 Observer 7 Apr. 3/5 (headline) Labour's pension botch-up. 1969 Rolling Stone 28 June 11/4 He blamed..botch-ups on the part of bands for half the troubles. 1991 Guardian 27 June (Review section) 29/2 His life has generally been a bit of a botch-up. 1999 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Sat. Mag.) 28 [A] decorator, once renowned for his botch-up jobs but now a changed man. 2000 M. A. Waller 1700: Scenes from London Life xvi. 328 The name of..Jack Catch, or Ketch, who had made such a botch-up of the Duke of Monmouth's beheading, became a byword for savagery and incompetence. < as lemmas |
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