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单词 rigmarole
释义
rigmarolerig‧ma‧role /ˈrɪɡmərəʊl $ -roʊl/ (also rigamarole American English) noun [singular, uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrigmarole
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
 I don’t want to go through the rigmarole of taking him to court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· 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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