弥び縫ほう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

patching up; temporary repair; makeshift mending

Literary word for temporarily fixing a problem or covering up a flaw, often with a makeshift solution. Commonly used in the phrase 弥縫策 (makeshift measure).

• 政せい府ふは弥び縫ほう策さくに終しゅう始しした。

  The government kept resorting to makeshift measures.

• 問もん題だいを弥び縫ほうするだけでは根こん本ぽん的てきな解かい決けつにならない。

  Merely patching up the problem won't lead to a fundamental solution.