cultivate , Is in the Rough, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot."

His acceptance speech was nearly as memorable: "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot."


For Tiger Woods, a Golf Course Design Business Is in the Rough






U.S. Suspends Nonlethal Aid to Syria Rebels
By MICHAEL R. GORDON, MARK LANDLER and ANNE BARNARD


The decision, just a month before a peace conference that will seek an end to the grinding civil war in Syria, demonstrated again the frustrations of trying to cultivate a viable alternative to President Bashar al-Assad.

cultivate

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/

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verb

[with object]

• 1prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening: the peasants who cultivated the land became its owners
• break up (soil) in preparation for sowing or planting: (as adjective, with submodifier cultivated)damp, well-cultivated soil
• raise or grow (plants), especially on a large scale for commercial purposes: they were encouraged to cultivate basic food crops walnuts were cultivated for salad oil

• 2 Biology grow or maintain (living cells or tissue) in culture: blood cells that can be most easily cultivated are macrophages

• 3try to acquire or develop (a quality or skill):he cultivated an air of indifference
• try to win the friendship or favour of (someone):it helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people
• try to improve or develop (one’s mind).

Derivatives

cultivable

adjective

cultivatable

adjective

Origin:

mid 17th century: from medieval Latin cultivat- 'prepared for crops', from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) 'arable (land)', from colere 'cultivate, inhabit'

rough
n.

1. 1. Rugged overgrown terrain.
   2. Sports. The part of a golf course left unmowed and uncultivated.
2. The difficult or disagreeable aspect, part, or side: observed politics in the rough when working as an intern on Capitol Hill.
3. Something in an unfinished or hastily worked-out state.
4. A crude unmannered person; a rowdy.

my foot!

informal said to express strong contradiction:Efficient, my foot!