jerry-built

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jerry-built englannista suomeksi

  1. huonosti rakennettu

  1. juosten kustu

jerry-built englanniksi

  1. Built cheaply and shoddily.

  2. 1832, ''Liverpool Mercury'', ‘…members of the Bluebell Club, the Jerry-Building society, &c…’ (via https://theprioryandthecastironshore.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/jerry-builder-origin-of-the-term/)

  3. 1859, August 6, Fonblanque|Albany Fonblanque, Junr., Once a Week, article ''Sebastopol Villa'':

  4. He had tried other building speculations, had run up other “jerry-built” houses, and had failed utterly, hopelessly.
  5. {{quote-text|en|year=1859|author=L. B. E|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CFkCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93|title=Cottoniron; a Poem|section=part 1, canto 3