Brewer's: Jerry-built

unsubstantial. A “jerry-builder” is a speculative builder who runs up cheap, unsubstantial houses, using materials of the commonest kind. (See Jury Mast.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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