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