jerry-built 偷工减料

“偷工减料”，汉语成语，意思是“暗中掺假或削减工序和用料（cheat on labour and materials）”，也比喻做事敷衍了事，贪图省力。与英文习语“jerry-built”意思相近，表示“badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality”。

例句：

偷工减料建成的房子

jerry-built houses

如果我们开始在质量上偷工减料，我们的客户会大量流失。

If we start cutting corners on quality, our customers will leave in droves.