Manicured lawns and ranch homes gradually replace South Gate's
jerry-built homes and chicken coops; residents enjoy the benefits of new federal housing and infrastructure programs and Los Angeles' postwar industrial boom.
Suburbia reconsidered: race, politics, and property in the twentieth century
"
Jerry-built" refers to anything hastily and haphazardly constructed, and while there's some controversy concerning its origin, its most plausible derivation is nautical.
Keep nose to grindstone when choosing metaphors
Herewith a few examples of Wills's own
jerry-built contrivances.
Garry Wills, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit
Outdoor jobs no longer require a
jerry-built arrangement of extension cords the farther you get from the house.
Triple threat. (What's New? Small Appliances, Tools And Gadgets)
No running water, no rations,
jerry-built humpies, no school for kilometres, not much work -- and no manager.
THE STOLEN GENERATIONS
Too many attractive Web sites are just nice facades on
jerry-built structures, he added.
Survival Profit in the E-Business World
The policy of gradual economic opening adopted after the 1973 coup is described as the product of a "fragile, tension-laden,
jerry-built coalition" (p.
The State and Capital in Chile: Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics
Wanamaker's devotion to the theatre of Shakespeare took root in another visionary moment, when he saw a play performed on a
jerry-built replica of the Globe at the 1935 Chicago World's Fair.
Wanamaker's wild idea takes wing
The resulting
jerry-built portables powered everything from streetlights to vaccine refrigerators.
A new golden age
It seems likely - as suggested in a dust-cover blurb - that one or more of the
jerry-built models outlined in Chapters 2-6 of the Hahn and Solow volume will interest some economists.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory
The chapter on Mochtar Lubis is unworthy of serious regard: a
jerry-built confection organised around list-making and given to explaining plot and character to readers imagined as feebleminded or illiterate or perhaps just a lazy mob; in any event quite incapable of discerning the rudiments.
Literary Perspectives on Southeast Asia: Collected Essays by Peter Wicks
But it makes perfect sense within the context of a crusade, where reasons and arguments are
jerry-built to justify the quest, where catsup is a vegetable, as Reagan famously claimed, if it gets you any closer to the Grail.
Lemon laws
As it was, the nation plunged into the rationalization of its ratlier
jerry-built nineteenthcentury manufacturing establishment; in the conversion of the steel industry from cutthroat competition and overproduction in marginally efficient plants to "cooperation," as Morgan called it, he had the dedicated assistance of men like Robert Bacon, George Perkins, and Charles Steele.
The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913
The foundations might have been solid but his tarte au citron was
jerry-built, with judge Paul Hollywood displaying a merciless streak as he added the cherry on top: "How the mighty fall."
The TV man who's seen it all; Daredevil cyclist Danny MacAskill was reaching for the Skye in his breathtaking ride along the Black Cuillin Ridge but over on Bake O it was a pie (well, a tarte au citron, actually) that let down hot favourite Richard Burr and gave granny Nancy Birtwhistle the title
THIS PAST JUNE, a sprawling,
jerry-built plywood protrusion sprang up in the middle of a South Bronx housing project with the suddenness of a mushroom patch after a spring rain.
Monumental endeavor