patch up

Example Sentences

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So here’s what I’m thinking: Before you skulk to her bedside for an insincere patch-up job, talk to your brother.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

We'll be radioactive debris long before this proposed patch-up job would come along.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016

Prediction : 2-2 Somehow, this patch-up New York team keeps winning.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

Ford was forced into this odd procedure by a budding driver rebellion against recalls that look to critics like mere patch-up jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now all law, all social order, all custom, is a patch-up and a concession to this separating passion of self-insistence.

From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)