AtD translation: rough-ins overlapping faster and faster

[Mike Jing]

I was wondering if it has something to do with "ruff", but I couldn't find
anything to back it up.

According to the OED:

ruff, n.8

1. *Music* (orig. *Mil.*). One of the ornamental rudiments of side drum
playing, consisting of three quick strokes followed by a fourth, producing
a light militaristic roll.



On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 8:13 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> A tough one. the compound phrase does NOT seem to be in the OED---but I
> may have
> wearied in trying to read with that glass all the follow-up nuances and
> additions under "rough".( And do you know
> how many columns there ARE for rough in the OED> Do ya?)
>
> Best google definition of a meaning in construction:
>  Rough in plumbing is, as its name suggests, basically a “rough draft” of
> your plumbing installation.
>
> So, Rough drumming is a thing, check it out, it means what you think it
> does, as in rough draft basically,
> so maybe the phrase is music slang for that happening?
> A spontaneous drumroll where the drummer
> keeps accelerating the drumming, overlapping the beats faster and faster
> perhaps?
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P184.16-24   And there was the attraction known as the Dynamite Lazarus,
>> where an ordinary-looking workhand in cap and overalls climbed inside a
>> pine casket painted black, which a crew then solemnly proceeded to stuff
>> with a shedful of dynamite and attach a piece of vivid orange fuse to that
>> didn’t look nearly long enough. After they’d nailed down the lid, their
>> foreman flourished a strike-anywhere match, ignited it dramatically on the
>> seat of his pants, and lit the fuse, whereupon everybody ran like hell.
>> Somewhere a drummer began a drumroll that grew louder, rough-ins
>> overlapping faster and faster as the fuse burned ever shorter—
>>
>> What are "rough-ins"?
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