throw together

throw together
phrasal 1. to put together in a hurried and usually careless manner <
a bookshelf hastily thrown together
>
2. to bring into casual association <
different kinds of people are thrown together — Richard Sennett
>

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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