Lesson 312--a half-assed job

Doing a half-assed job

 

When people are lazy, or even unskilled the work they produce or do is obviously not going to be any good.  We have several phrases to describe this.  They include;

doing a half-assed job

doing piss-poor job

doing a crappy job

doing a crap job

examples

Jimmy did such a half-assed job on his homework that the teacher sent a letter to his parents.

The painters did such a piss-poor job that Matthew refused to pay them.

Bruno is so lazy that he does everything half-assed.

The boss warned the workers that doing a crappy job was not what the company believed in.

 

Other words to consider:

subpar