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Old 12-Feb-2008, 07:09
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Default what means "rough around the edges"?

the dictionary says: "If someone is rough around the edges, they haven't mastered something, though they show promise."

But I have heart this expression in other contexts:

1. if s.o. does not feel well, a bit frayed maybe, for example because of a hang over

2. if s.o. is not very sophisticated, distinguished, but unpolished and without manners

Which is the right meaning? And/Or are there difficulties in AE and BE?
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