0 Off-the-peg clothes are made and bought in standard sizes and not made especially to fit a particular person:
an off-the-peg suit
1 not made especially to fit a particular person or suit a situation:
Inevitably, there is an off-the-peg element if services are provided by a statutory agency—people get what is on offer whether it fits or not.
There is another important consideration in that the off-the-peg buses operate a different kind of braking system.
We considered the possibility of off-the-peg orders, but the design of platforms depends upon their sites being precisely known.
The stakeholder scheme is basically off-the-peg; it is not tailor-made.
They did not want to buy an off-the-peg house; they wanted not only to design their home themselves, but to build it.
The simple five-a-day fruit and vegetable message has been undermined by a plethora of off-the-peg, well-presented packets of pre-packed processed foods.
Partners should be willing to adapt off-the-peg solutions that work elsewhere to reduce common problems, such as residential burglary.
With my shape, off-the-peg is not an option.
