因陋就簡

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crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can · to do things simply and thriftily · It's not pretty but it works.

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can
  2. to do things simply and thriftily
  3. It's not pretty but it works.

Written Forms

因陋就簡Traditional · Main Form
因陋就简Alternate Form

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