Adjective : a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses. ,a cowboy-the rough-and-ready type.    From Dictionary.com. 

In this rough-and-ready way, the common wine is made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The establishment and furniture were of the rough-and-ready order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

It'll be pretty rough-and-ready for a while, until they learn habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2003] Reference

Madrazo is no stranger to the rough-and-ready tactics of PRI infighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [RETURN OF THE PRI] Reference

McCook and Wood swear like pirates, and affect the rough-and-ready style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

I've certainly treated you with a rather rough-and-ready kind of courtesy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

A portion of the dough was used to make what were called 'rough-and-ready cakes.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

There was also the question of her allegedly rough-and-ready approach to artist relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hip-Hop Happens] Reference

Not only could he strike upon occasion, but he could be just in his rough-and-ready fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference

There was one large, rough-board house, where they served rough-and-ready grub and let rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

I did not think much of his service; even for a camp it was rough-and-ready to a Persian eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Los Lobos's first album of new material in four years marks a return to the group's rough-and-ready roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review: Los Lobos's 'Tin Can Trust'] Reference

The problem is similar to the present one, except that it is rough-and-ready, compared to the present one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

The rough-and-ready right wing of the Party has known a few unwed pregnant 17-year-old daughters in its time.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Handle this Woman: A Playbook for the Democrats] Reference

And it looked like Belinda was no slouch in the rough-and-ready category herself, though I'd wager she'd deny it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

I mean, to me, making tapes from just records -- I mean, there's a certain -- there's a rough-and-ready aspect there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mix Tape: Art and Artifact] Reference

And he was fascinated with the idea of joining the rough-and-ready Marines, unusual for a young man from a Buddhist home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2007] Reference

"Take for example the World Bank's Difficulty of Firing Index, a good rough-and-ready measure of labour market rigidity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There they encountered, on the rough edges of society, rough-and-ready men in whom they recognized their natural superiors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

His English and French became all but faultless, and he learned to draw in rough-and-ready, if not professionally expert fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany] Reference

Archie Lugg was a handyman, and he had put up some rough-and-ready bookcases for her only a week or so back, using old floorboards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presumption of Death]

There were two men, both famous as athletes; one of them was noted as one of the most desperate rough-and-ready fighters in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective] Reference

The challenge is to make this memento mori of Prohibition palatable without losing what Beebe called its "rough-and-ready" character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrating Cinco de Drinko] Reference

"Two sailor suits, so we can change; one nice shore dress, if we are asked anywhere, and one rough-and-ready suit for work -- or play.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference

This is basically an al dente shellfish, but the rough-and-ready wild-red-and-green-lipped abalones we brought back to shore were chewy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Shell Game] Reference

This is basically an al dente shellfish, but the rough-and-ready, wild red-and green-lipped abalones we brought back to shore were chewy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abalone delicious] Reference

But there have been some awful examples of wretched excess, especially in his rough-and-ready approach to the town's favorite son, Mozart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silliness and Subversion Taint the Salzburg Opera Festival] Reference

He was a tenacious man, possessed of a rude intellectual force, a rough-and-ready stump speaker, intensely loyal, industrious, sincere, self-reliant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

That they were the first to do so goes without saying: for no one before them had applied any method at all, except in the most rough-and-ready manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

It's a rough-and-ready show, but there are finds to be had, and, where there aren't, it makes a case for the clarifying and productive virtues of bad art.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARTINFO: The Top Ten Shows to See In New York City] Reference

There were two wheels, undoubtedly, placed across which a sort of rough-and-ready box formed the cart; on this a seat without a back was "reserved" for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

On a campaign every soldier carried on his person a field-dressing, and the wounded received rough-and-ready first-aid attention from their comrades in arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

In modern terms, it is a simple, rough-and-ready attempt to solve that constant problem of politics, how efficient government is to be combined with popular control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

The following page from Landells 'rather rough-and-ready accounts will give some idea of how financial matters stood between the parties at the time of the transfer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

It is a system typical of the East and its slipshod, rough-and-ready dealings: its great element of simplicity harks back to a life in tents, where red tape was unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference