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need more time in the oven en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (figuratively) Of a project or an idea, to be insufficiently polished or thought out; requiring more time to attain acceptable quality.
    • 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. 1996, Todd G. Buchholz, From Here to Economy, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
needs more time in the oven Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
needed more time in the oven Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
needed more time in the oven Tense=Past lexicographic
needing more time in the oven Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

underbaked · half-baked · underdeveloped