engineering

Idioms (10)

• the elephant in the room Neutral · CEFR B2
  an obvious and important problem that everyone notices but avoids discussing
• band-aid fix Informal · CEFR B2
  a hasty, temporary solution that patches a symptom without addressing the root cause
• reinvent the wheel Neutral · CEFR B2
  to waste time recreating something that already exists and works well
• smoke test Neutral · CEFR B2
  a quick, shallow test that checks whether a system's most basic functions work at all
• quick and dirty Informal · CEFR B2
  done rapidly and roughly, with little care for quality or polish
• in the trenches Informal · CEFR C1
  doing the difficult, unglamorous, hands-on work at the front line of a problem or project
• whack-a-mole Informal · CEFR B2
  a repetitive, endless cycle in which fixing one problem immediately causes or reveals another
• iron out the kinks Neutral · CEFR B2
  to fix the last small problems in a plan, process, or product
• golden path Neutral · CEFR C1
  the default, well-supported, happy-path way of using a system, opposed to exotic configurations
• technical debt Neutral · CEFR C1
  the long-term cost of choosing quick, messy solutions over careful ones