catch-as-catch-can (2)

catch-as-catch-can  {adj. phr.}

Полученный любой ценой, любым способом; стихийный; свободный.

Rip van Winkle seems to have led a catch-as-catch-can life.

Politics is rather a catch-as-catch-can business.

Ср.: HIT-OR-MISS.