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单词 red tapeworm
释义 red tapeworm joc.
[Blend of red-tape and tapeworm.]
Red-tapism or a red-tapist regarded as parasitic or as a disease of society.
1917Times 26 Oct. 8/3 Send the papers to the Christchurch Museum in New Zealand as an example of the Red Tape-worm of England.1918Studies Dec. 664 The State ought to provide it; but the mechanism is clogged by the red-tapeworm.1939Amer. Speech XIV. 6 Others refer disparagingly to ‘poluticians’,..and ‘red tapeworms’.
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