Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - throw together

1. If you throw something together, for example a meal or a costume, you make it quickly and not very carefully. (INFORMAL) Too often, picnic preparation consists of throwing together some sandwiches and grabbing an apple. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 2. If people are thrown together by a situation or event, it causes them to get to know each other, even though they may not want to. The cast and crew were thrown together for 12 hours a day, six days a week, until the filming was completed... If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension... My husband is constantly thrown together with young people through his work. PHRASAL VERB: pl-n be V-ed P, V-ed P, be V-ed P with n, also V pl-n P, V P pl-n (not pron), V n P with n