shake and bake
See also: shake-and-bake
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the brand name Shake 'n Bake, a powdered seasoning.
Noun
- Something fast, or easy to use or perform; a simple, crude object or action.
- 2001, Philip Ball, Molecules: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2003, p. 24:
- Yet, until the last few decades of the twentieth century, the approach that Levi describes, which chemists like to call ‘shake and bake’, was often the best they could do.
- 2001, Philip Ball, Molecules: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2003, p. 24:
Adjective
- Crude, unsophisticated; not professionally done, improvised.