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English Idiom: Cobble something together
Most of us would prefer enough time to prepare for everything we must do.
Unfortunately, folks, things don’t happen that way, and we are often forced to cobble something together at short notice.
You see, to cobble something together means quickly and carelessly preparing, creating a plan or putting something together.
Of course, we’d prefer a few months to plan and put together a rainy day fund for sudden expenses such as a broken fridge.
Unfortunately, we usually come home from work one day to find a broken fridge we need to replace pronto.
Then we must beg, borrow and perhaps even steal to cobble together enough funds to purchase another.
If you’ve been a university student, you’ve felt the panic that sets in immediately before a major paper is due.
Fortunately, I am a pre-crastinator, so I always try to complete things ahead of time.
I do remember walking through the university library the night before a paper was due and seeing many students trying desperately to cobble something together to hand in the next day.
Most often, we use the phrase cobble something together when we don’t have time to do something in the correct way or when we don’t want to spend the time to do something properly.
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