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Rough and ready

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Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency
- Lowell.

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He was rough and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and made him heartily welcome.
These rough and ready customers were not to be led by rules or frightened by precedents; they were not to be easily imposed upon, for the article they wanted was not to be easily counterfeited.
Instinct, as a rule, is very rough and ready, able to achieve its result under ordinary circumstances, but easily misled by anything unusual.
 
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