need more time in the oven
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Verb
need more time in the oven (third-person singular simple present needs more time in the oven, present participle needing more time in the oven, simple past and past participle needed more time in the oven)
- (figurative) Of a project or an idea, to be insufficiently polished or thought out; requiring more time to attain acceptable quality.
- 1996, Todd G. Buchholz, From Here to Economy, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- 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.
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