rigmarole
僵局,繁琐的手续,繁琐的工作,僵化
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- : an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
- : confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
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That wrangling becomes necessary if a classroom tests positive, of course, but surveilling air filters instead of students could help schools get a course look at transmission without the rigmarole of testing lots of students.
All that rigmarole from long ago broadcasts important lessons to our own time.
After all the rigmarole, they found what any pediatrician already knew: the MMR causes fever.
Of course, that rigmarole about the cardinal is all nonsense.
But it came back to him afterward, and seemed to bear out the Countess's rigmarole.
I am sure that no one who has seen all this radical rigmarole, as I have had occasion to see it, can be deceived by it.
It's a rigmarole because the boy is a Rigmarole and we've come to Rigmarole Town.
But now, what confused rigmarole are you bringing to my ears?