W28

Someone who’s in a hurry and has to sew up a torn place quickly might say, “I’ll just ________.”

This question was slightly altered from the 1965–70 question.

TACK IT6
BASTE IT5
TACK IT UP5
GIVE IT A LICK AND A PROMISE3
MEND IT2
SEW IT UP2
STITCH IT UP2
DO A QUICK STITCH1
FREEHAND IT1
PATCH IT1
PATCH IT OVER1
PATCH IT UP1
PIN IT1
QUICK SEW1
SEW IT1
SEW THAT UP1
TAPE IT1

DARE Data Summary by Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.