[SoothingDave]

https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity

Instead, the prevailing attitude is chabuduo, or ‘close enough’. It’s a phrase you’ll hear with grating regularity, one that speaks to a job 70 per cent done, a plan sketched out but never completed, a gauge unchecked or a socket put in the wrong size. Chabuduo is the corrosive opposite of the impulse towards craftmanship, the desire, as the sociologist Richard Sennett writes in The Craftsman (2008), ‘to reject muddling through, to reject the job just good enough’. Chabuduo implies that to put any more time or effort into a piece of work would be the act of a fool. China is the land of the cut corner, of ‘good enough for government work’.

[Red Badger]

Chabuduo for government work...........

[xsmommy]

happy new year. We were gifted with a bottle of Trump wine for Christmas, by xshub’s BIL, which we will drink on 1/20. Also, Sean Hannity interviewed Julian Assange, so I guess that will constitute chabuduo as proof of life for the alt-right who have been sure he was murdered.

[tioga]

Chabuduo it is for Hillary’s brand
She won the popular vote in liberal land
Yet PEOTUS is still Trump
Liberal tears did they pump
And fires of discontent they have fanned.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, if a fat government employee (hard to call all of them “workers”) is assigned to a loquacious three-member team, is she a chatabuttrio?

[NeoCaveman]

Chickens are the Machiavelli of the bird family, chabuduo.