doitrockapella: (CONFIDENT ❖ why yes i speak jive)
Carmen Sandiego ([personal profile] doitrockapella) wrote in [personal profile] windeity 2017-11-06 11:56 pm (UTC)

There's a Portuguese term, "desenrascanço", which doesn't have any particularly good English equivalent, but that essentially describes the phenomenon you're thinking of, I think.

The closest I've heard to defining it in English is "pulling a MacGyver".

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