jerry-building

There is too much "jerry-building" to-day, both in houses and books.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

We hope that the effect of this statement may not be to encourage jerry-building.

Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 Various 1898

At Peterborough, no less than at York, instances have been discovered of what would, in these days, be called jerry-building.

The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See 1896

It is curious, also, that these very builders who were so daring and so profuse of ornament, were often very careless in matters of structure, and at times were even guilty of something very like jerry-building, as the account of the restoration of the south transept will show.

The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See 1896

Scottish master of jerry-building and of "plinths," the atmosphere was truly Scots, tea-coseys and all, while the reminiscences of Paris and

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872