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Chris -- 2025-05-10
From confusion with jerry-built. Jury-rigged means improvised; jerry-built means shoddily produced.
The New Yorker magazine loves this one; see for example http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/a … talk_agger (“Over the years, she’s seen some crazy jerry-rigs: bungee cords, AstroTurf, plastic piping.) and http://www.newyorker.com/critics/conten … sk_skyline (“Not Gehry-rigged”, a lame pun on the architect’s name).
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Oops, sorry, I just realized this is a duplicate thread; see http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=536
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