Idiom
band-aid solution
Meaning
A temporary or inadequate solution.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This tape is just a band-aid solution for your broken chair.”
“The manager offered a band-aid solution to the staffing crisis, but the team knew the underlying problems would return.”
“By focusing solely on symptoms rather than systemic failures, the government implemented a band-aid solution that failed to address the root of the economic instability.”
Examples
simple
“This tape is just a band-aid solution for your broken chair.”
contextual
“The manager offered a band-aid solution to the staffing crisis, but the team knew the underlying problems would return.”
complex
“By focusing solely on symptoms rather than systemic failures, the government implemented a band-aid solution that failed to address the root of the economic instability.”
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