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单词
rigmarole
释义
rigmarole
rig‧ma‧role
/
ˈrɪɡmərəʊl
$
-roʊl
/
(
also
rigamarole
American English
)
noun
[singular, uncountable]
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
rigmarole
Origin:
1700-1800
ragman roll
‘document containing a long list, used in a game called "ragman"’
(15-18 centuries)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
We had to take a day off work to go through the
rigmarole
of getting state ID cards.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
After all this
rigmarole
, they were to write a story to fit the words and pictures they had chosen.
Going through that
rigmarole
wouldn't protect what we have at all.
It was a
rigmarole
, a muddled torrent of words, not easy to follow and yet startling.
No, she'd only have to go through the same
rigmarole
to get out.
None of this
rigmarole
had occurred to him before he spoke.
Or do you go through a
rigmarole
of inserting diaphragms or taking pills?
The entire
rigmarole
, I realised, was just a charade.
The nightly
rigmarole
of getting her settled is finally over.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
►
go through the rigmarole of
I don’t want to
go through the rigmarole of
taking him to court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUS
VERB
►
go
·
No, she'd only have to
go
through the same
rigmarole
to get out.
·
Or do you
go
through a
rigmarole
of inserting diaphragms or taking pills?
a long confusing process or description
:
I don’t want to
go through the rigmarole of
taking him to court.
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