The Vocabulary of Making Do

Chalta hai. It goes. It will do. Said of a half-baked solution that is accepted anyway.

Chaltaa kaam. A makeshift or temporary arrangement, according to the Rekhta dictionary.

Zara add-just karo. Adjust a little. A columnist in The Week described the habit of adjusting as “our accommodative spirit towards a less-than-perfect solution.”

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