"rough and ready" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 15, in The Sea Lions:",
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          "ref": "1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 291:",
          "text": "There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]",
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          "ref": "1996 December 4, Roderick Conway Morris, “10 Years of Enlightenment: An Unusual Orchestra Celebrates”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
          "text": "\"Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 November 8, Michael D. Lemonick, Bryan Walsh, “How We Grew So Big”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-04:",
          "text": "Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).",
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        "Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
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        "(idiomatic, often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun) Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough."
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          "word": "cheap and cheerful"
        },
        {
          "word": "diamond in the rough"
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        {
          "word": "quick-and-dirty"
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        {
          "word": "rough around the edges"
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