the.com/teething trouble
The polite term for 'everything is broken but we meant to do that.'
means The small but annoying faults a new product, system, or process shows when it's first used, before they get fixed.
from Straight from literal teething — the fretful, painful stage when a baby's first teeth push through. By the 1800s, writers had started borrowing the phrase figuratively for the early, fussy growing pains of anything new, and it stuck as the standard way to describe a launch that's cutting its teeth rather than outright failing.
- origin
- named after babies crying while growing teeth
- corporate use
- deployed when refunds would otherwise be demanded
- duration
- supposedly temporary, suspiciously often permanent
- translation
- we shipped it before it was ready