荒療治

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 荒療治 is read as あらりょうじ and is a noun for a drastic remedy or extreme measure that accepts major cost or risk to solve a problem at once.
• Basic usage: Closing loss-making divisions at once appears in 荒療治だった, while taking the step of changing all training methods appears in 荒療治に出る.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Assessment and action
  • Use 荒療治だ to characterize a measure and 荒療治に出る for resorting to it.
• Difference from ordinary improvement
  • Unlike gradual improvement, it strongly suggests a radical measure producing major change quickly.