patchwork quilt
English
Noun
patchwork quilt (plural patchwork quilts)
- (literally) A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.
- (figuratively, by extension) Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.
- 1989 September 25, Susan Tifft et al., “Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower”, in Time:
- Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school.
Synonyms
- (Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure or random composition): hodgepodge, jumble
Translations
decorative quilt
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disorganized structure
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See also
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