on the hoof

基本解釋

Critics accuse Mr Zapatero of dictating short-term solutions on the hoof, rather than tackling deeper ills.
評(píng)論家指責(zé)薩帕特羅先生輕率的出臺(tái)短期解決方案，而非處理更深層的弊端。
The institutional arrangements for the euro are now in flux, with Europe scrambling to invent emergency backstop measures on the hoof.
歐元的制度安排處于變化之中，歐洲正在急急忙忙、手忙腳亂地推出各種應(yīng)急擔(dān)保措施。
Yet upland farmers, especially in the Carolina and Virginia, raised livestock for commercial sale and exported meat, either on the hoof or in cured form, in quantity to other colonies.
而高地的農(nóng)民，尤其在卡羅來納和弗吉尼亞，飼養(yǎng)牲畜供商業(yè)性銷售以及出口生鮮或熏制的肉食，大批運(yùn)往其它殖民地。

Canada had only six big meat packers—and too much meat on the hoof.
ECONOMIST: Canada
The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.
NEWYORKER: Chicago
It is difficult, though, to push through economic reform in recipient countries if the impression is of policy made on the hoof.
ECONOMIST: Calling the wrong shots?

If you do something on the hoof, you do it while you are moving about or doing something else, often without giving it the attention it deserves.