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Idioms and Phrases
Try to repair, work aimlessly or unskillfully with, as in He tinkered with the engine all day but it still wouldn't start . This idiom, first recorded in 1658, alludes to working as a tinker, that is, mending metal utensils.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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