>attempted improvement that only makes things worse
Unless I'm mistaken, Russian has a wonderful idiom for this: "bear job"
That actually also exists in German! Bärendienst, although it is not 100% the same as Verschlimmbesserung.
Can you post the word in Russian?
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That actually also exists in German! Bärendienst, although it is not 100% the same as Verschlimmbesserung.