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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.
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And lastly, if you constantly tinker with what you are cooking, you must refrain when you fry.

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As a result, they are willing to tinker with a sacred public institution, not realizing that if they break the one institution that pulls us together, we may never pull ourselves together again — or as I often say, if public schools become the place where only low-income students go, the public education project as we know it is over and it is hard to imagine it coming back.

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Whether Mitchell continues to tinker with his side is less predictable, as he continues to develop his winning-machine in the year that will define his side's success.

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Sasaki also is trying to develop more trust in a third pitch, continuing to tinker with both a slider and curveball to complement his signature fastball-splitter arsenal.

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“It was a good step in the right direction to reinvigorate the game in some way. And then you tinker with it again next year and see what changes you can make,†he said.

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