> Finally, you throw in the towel and cobble together some rough phrases.
So it comes up with the most appalling mixed metaphor!
Hi beardyw, thanks for the feedback and for reading the piece. As I tried to communicate in the blog post, Mot Juste is not intended for rewriting your work but rather to retrieve specific words and idioms, and I specifically chose that sample sentence to illustrate this point. Rather than copy-paste Mot Juste's output, I select the idiom "cobble together". I encourage you to give Mot Juste a try the next time you write!
I apologise. I admit I was looking for errors which is unfair. Writing about English is a minefield where angels fear to tread (see what I did there).