因陋就简

yīn lòu jiù jiǎn

crude but simple methods (idiom); use whatever methods you can

to do things simply and thriftily; It's not pretty but it works.

因

yīn

old variant of 因[yin1]

陋

lòu

low

就

jiù

(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then

简

jiǎn

simple