1. This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.

2. He is a rough-and-ready character.

3. He had a bluff, rough-and-ready face.

4. Our rough-and-ready Big Mac index calculated in July that the franc was as much as 98% overvalued against the dollar.

5. The B.P.P., in its rough-and-ready way, is part of a data revolution.

6. As we have seen, even though the Government Actuary's Department's guidelines are helpful, a rough-and-ready approach is perhaps inevitable.

7. I've done a lot of thinking about what to wear with wipe-down, and basically it's the following: jeans, black, stripes, navy, anything with a rough-and-ready, slightly faded look.

8. It is tough work for the multinational crew of 30 in this rough-and-ready little boat, prettified below deck with posters of orang-utans and sunflowers painted in the toilets.

9. 12 a.m. - Zip across on the train, a five-minute or so ride, to Kaohsiung's rather rough-and-ready neighbor Fongshan.