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Idiom

bash into shape

Meaning

Of an item, to fix or build it; often in a rough and ready fashion.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I need to bash this old table into shape.”

“The project was a mess, but we worked all weekend to bash it into shape.”

“With the deadline looming, the team scrambled to bash the rough draft into shape before the final presentation.”

Examples

simple

“I need to bash this old table into shape.”

contextual

“The project was a mess, but we worked all weekend to bash it into shape.”

complex

“With the deadline looming, the team scrambled to bash the rough draft into shape before the final presentation.”

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