List of synonyms from "jerk" to synonyms from "jersey"
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Definition of the day : « jerry-built »
- adj flimsy
- Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?
- Extract from : « This Simian World » by Clarence Day
- The house was new but jerry-built, reeked of drains, and swarmed with vermin.
- Extract from : « From Paris to New York by Land » by Harry de Windt
- I should say it was built on contract, and jerry-built at that.
- Extract from : « Windows (Fifth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- From her way of saying it, you would have supposed it had been jerry-built last week.
- Extract from : « The Retrospect » by Ada Cambridge
- It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice.
- Extract from : « The Secret Places of the Heart » by H. G. Wells
- The expression “jerry-built” is applied to houses built badly and of inferior materials, and run up by a speculative builder.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 3 » by Various
- See the finest position in the neighbourhood occupied by a jerry-built Moorish nightmare?
- Extract from : « The Brass Bottle » by F. Anstey
- As the comedian in the piece remarked—and it is the only phrase you carry away—Jericho must have been jerry-built.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various
- Jerry-built shanties with rattletrap aircars grounded around them.
- Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
- A work of beauty which cannot stand an intimate examination is a poor and jerry-built thing.
- Extract from : « Sword Blades and Poppy Seed » by Amy Lowell