Significados de jerry-built en inglés

It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice.

Tells about other features of Koch's jerry-built scheme for closing the budget gap.

Properly constructed buildings held firm, while jerry-built structures collapsed with the most appalling consequences.

The jerry-built home of the Early Bungalow Period stands up bravely under the Mortgage.

General Headquarters had been established in a house near by, a middle-class, flamboyant, jerry-built affair.

Cardiff have been a vigorous, jerry-built Premier League team.

The semi-suburban towns stretched forth long, rawly-red arms of ugly, little, jerry-built streets and terraces.

Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?

Then the very walls began to fall apart, as though it were all jerry-built junk.

It was one of those dreadful jerry-built houses which, while they are still new, look old.

Only automatons will live in a jerry-built cottage in a modern town and pay heavily for the privilege.

A cord led from the computer to a jerry-built device that projected them in 3-D onto the ceiling.

The bungalow was a very solid one, but the partition walls of the rooms were almost jerry-built in their flimsiness.

It only needed a spear-point to burst the jerry-built dam and let the flood through....

A jerry-built world, apparently.

The chatelaine of a jerry-built villa, who is pleased to consort with anybody except servants and the class below servants, is another.