need more time in the oven
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of a project or an idea, to be insufficiently polished or thought out; requiring more time to attain acceptable quality.
Example Sentences
- "Their draft of the new business case doesn't yet say enough about the market research they've done — it clearly needs more time in the oven."
- "Though Jevons's theory was more than half-baked, it needed more time in the oven, since he forgot to calculate that poor harvests in Asia would hit England only after a time lag."