band-aid brigade

Example Sentences

• "One of the things I absolutely detest is someone calling the ambulance a “boo-boo bus” or saying we are the “band-aid brigade” or anything that minimizes or dismisses the level of skill and knowledge required to be a Paramedic in 2024!"
• "In the past, maintenance was resigned to its fate as a firefighting, Band-Aid brigade. Why put the time and effort into writing effective preventive maintenance (PM) tasks or scheduling PM tasks if production isn't going to give you the time to perform them and if the workday is going to be consumed by a never-ending supply of emergency/help calls?"
• "Today's dominant conflicts, like those in Yemen, South Sudan and Syria, have been ongoing for years and are still far from a conclusive political solution, he says. As these conflicts drag on, the ability of local people to cope wears thin, making them even more vulnerable to additional shocks. In the meantime, Konyndyk says humanitarians are a "Band-Aid brigade – sometimes on an indefinite basis.""
• "Marrah is principal at Beech Grove Elementary in the Tuslaw School District and also sits in a principle's chair in the Ashland Symphony Orchestra. So it's not unusual to find him strolling Beech Grove's halls in the morning to offer a soothing classical melody on the violin, or picking up the guitar in his office to strum a rousing rendition of "There was a Man named Aiken Drum" for the after-recess Band-Aid brigade."
• "We were in the same company in bootcamp until I got hurt and ended up spending a month in X ray company (a medical company often called “the band aid brigade” and that was the end of our time together in the Coast Guard."