English-French translations for cobble together

• bricoler
  Nos gouvernements se sont munis d'un kit style IKEA, une boîte à outils devant permettre à chaque État de bricoler des solutions spécifiques pour chaque situation spécifique. Our governments have equipped themselves with an IKEA-style kit, a toolbox that should allow each State to cobble together a specific solution for each specific situation.
  On peut bricoler, imaginer des stratégies d'émancipation malgré le fondamentalisme - certaines Iraniennes nous l'ont prouvé - mais rien n'en fait une vérité absolue. It is possible to cobble together or come up with strategies for emancipation despite fundamentalism, as certain Iranian women have proved to us, but that does not make it true in all cases.

Definition of cobble together

• To put together without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise minimally usable

Related words

• cobbler, keep to your last
• cobblestone
• cobblestone pavement
• a cobbler should stick to his last