0 something that seems to be a fast and easy solution to a problem but is in fact not very good or will not last long:
1 an easy but temporary solution to a problem:
Managers are looking for a quick fix.
These advertisements suggest that there is "a quick fix" for bodily improvement.
We will then go on to the more involved cases where the 'quick fix' cannot be used; these are not really hard, but simply technical.
Our best hope is that we can educate one another out of the regressive illusion that there is a quick fix for anything.
Negative parental control techniques provide a "quick fix" in minimizing expressions of distress but ultimately inter fere with the development of self-initiated coping skills.
Too often, postconflict elections have been conceived as a ' quick fix ' and an exit strategy for the international community.
This construction was made easier by the 'quick fix' of simply removing a small number of vertices from the off-colour clique-cycles to force them to be balanced.
The situation is critical; there is no quick fix.
There is no prospect of a quick fix for the present mess.
