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

Asking Scott Wright or Joe Aribo or Fashion Sakala to do the role of the man through the middle might be fine in Scottish football, but this is the rarefied air of a European semi-final and hoping that a patch-up operation will cut it is pushing it.

From BBC

In the middle of last week, he was reportedly warming to the idea, but by Friday denied having any interest in a “patch-up” government, adding the PD is ready for elections.

From The Guardian

Jose Sepulveda, the power company’s transmission and distribution director, acknowledged to The Associated Press that the current system, which serves 1.5 million customers, is a patch-up job following the Sept. 20, 2017, hurricane, and that it needs further repairs and updates.

From Seattle Times

Colin Scott of Alexandria, Va., endured years of misdiagnosis and patch-up jobs before finally biting the bullet.

From Washington Post