nonsolution
goat rope
pseudosolution
half-measure
non-starter
sticking plaster
escape fire
approximation
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
the cure is worse than the disease
plan B
teaser
puzzle
puzzler
mystifier
bandage
remedilessness
wing and prayer
nostrum
futile
fail
solutionlessness
plan C
cut the Gordian knot
Tower of Babel
impracticality
uneffective
call
nonfailure
ideal mixture
misappreciation
no-win situation
fudge
passable
waymaking
offcast
dead duck
insoluble
holding pattern
unsolvable
unsuitable
irremediably
chase a rainbow
worst of both worlds
counterstrategy
unfulfillably
blind alley
heuristic
deproblematize
mug's game
nonrevision
pipe dream
unresolvably
fiddle
misendow
inexpedient
hackaround
at a pinch
nonconsequence
necessary evil
in a pinch
solution in search of a problem
third way
nontheory
backtracking
negative
ideal solution
limp
yak shaving
waterproof
so-so
blivit
acceptably
dry hole
live with
tolerably
negatum
close enough for government work
fool's errand
negand
cobra effect
only
inaccuracy
silver bullet
that dog won't hunt
unstomachable
utopian
contraproductive
weed
schemelessness
fault
Heath Robinson
unsolvably
zombie theory
butchery
pie in the sky
flake