rush job
Last-minute effort
A rush job is work done under extreme time pressure, typically at the expense of quality or thoroughness.
The phrase often carries a negative connotation—either criticism of hasty work This report reads like a rush job or acknowledgment that corners were cut out of necessity It's a rush job, but it'll hold until we can fix it properly.
- last-minuteJust before deadline
- hastyExcessively quick, ill-considered
- quick and dirtyFast but unpolished
- thrown togetherAssembled hastily, without care
- hurriedDone too quickly
cut corners · improvised · sloppy · rough around the edges · expedite · eleventh-hour · crunch time · slapdash · urgency · shortcuts · incomplete · time crunch · against the clock · haphazard · race against time · compromised · patchwork · jerry-rigged
- shoddy work
- urgencyurgent, urgently, emergency, ASAP, stat
- shoddinessslipshod, slapdash, botch, poor quality, substandard
- unreasonable demandsimpossible task, unpaid labor, weekend work, scope creep, moving goalposts
- speedspeed, quickness, rate, velocity, pace
- blundersblunder, blunders, blundered, mistakes, botch
quality and craftsmanship
rush jobmasterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
work of art · fine craftsmanship · heirloom quality · showpiece · magnum opus