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Sat 20 Jul, 2019 04:21 am
I am studying English, but I have encountered the following sentence today.
But I don’t understand what the first word “quarter-measures’ mean.
Would anyone explain what it means in a simple or detail way so that I can understand what the sentence means?
His quarter-measures have brought higher prices, and also provoked massive strikes, but without any prospect of stabilizing the economy.
@suwon kim,
The writer is trying to be clever. To give something your "full measure" is to give it your best effort. The give "half measure" is give it a weak attempt. "Quarter" means one part in four so the writer is saying he person he is talking about did not even bother to give half measure.
Is this a British term?
Years are divided into quarters (3 months each) for financial reporting.
This could also be referencing a time measurement.
More context would have helped.
@suwon kim,
You can determined what it means by comparing, "full measure, half measure, and quarter measure (or any ratio used like "one-eighth)."
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