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Definition of rigmarole in English: rigmarolenoun ˈrɪɡmərəʊlˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl 1A lengthy and complicated procedure. 繁琐费时的手续 he went through the rigmarole of securing the front door 他完成了繁琐费时的关闭大门的步骤。 Example sentencesExamples - We ought to learn business like everybody else, go through the same rigmarole.
- But then came the page banners and pop-up ads and the whole rigmarole started all over again.
- I would need to go through the rigmarole of applying for both accounts.
- They should just take less tax from us instead of making us go through months of rigmarole for nothing!
- It took quite a time of fiddling about before I found a comfortable position and then, in cases where driving is shared, the whole rigmarole has to be endured all over again when you get back behind the wheel.
- Howard had been through the rigmarole of selling a company many times.
- If we'd gone much further it would have been dark before we finished all this rigmarole.
- I couldn't focus on an abstract location, so I focused on the last place I remember clearest before this whole rigmarole started.
- They are for people who know what they want and who don't want to go through the rigmarole of talking to a sales assistant.
- The pomposity and rigmarole they put directors through is astounding.
- I'd been on boats where people went diving, and I'd watched the rigmarole of getting kitted up in diving gear.
- He didn't know why he bothered with this rigmarole.
- I went through this rigmarole for the next hour or so.
- So you quickly tire of having to go through the rigmarole.
Synonyms lengthy process, fuss, fuss and bother, bother, commotion, trouble, folderol, ado, pother informal palaver, song and dance, performance, to-do, carry-on, carrying-on, kerfuffle, hoo-ha, hullabaloo, ballyhoo, business, pantomime, hassle, hoopla New Zealand informal bobsy-die - 1.1 A long, rambling story or statement.
冗长的废话，胡言乱语 she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she'd had Example sentencesExamples - The others were standing around, drinks in hand, congratulating my cousin on his initiation, and asking us amused tones what we thought of the crazy rigmarole.
- So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole.
- The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
Synonyms lengthy story/explanation, saga, yarn, recitation, burble, burbling, maundering, shaggy-dog story informal spiel, banging on, palaver
OriginMid 18th century: apparently an alteration of ragman roll, originally denoting a legal document recording a list of offences. Definition of rigmarole in US English: rigmarolenounˈriɡ(ə)məˌrōlˈrɪɡ(ə)məˌroʊl 1usually in singular A lengthy and complicated procedure. 繁琐费时的手续 he went through the rigmarole of securing the front door 他完成了繁琐费时的关闭大门的步骤。 Example sentencesExamples - Howard had been through the rigmarole of selling a company many times.
- If we'd gone much further it would have been dark before we finished all this rigmarole.
- So you quickly tire of having to go through the rigmarole.
- I went through this rigmarole for the next hour or so.
- I'd been on boats where people went diving, and I'd watched the rigmarole of getting kitted up in diving gear.
- But then came the page banners and pop-up ads and the whole rigmarole started all over again.
- It took quite a time of fiddling about before I found a comfortable position and then, in cases where driving is shared, the whole rigmarole has to be endured all over again when you get back behind the wheel.
- We ought to learn business like everybody else, go through the same rigmarole.
- They should just take less tax from us instead of making us go through months of rigmarole for nothing!
- He didn't know why he bothered with this rigmarole.
- They are for people who know what they want and who don't want to go through the rigmarole of talking to a sales assistant.
- I would need to go through the rigmarole of applying for both accounts.
- I couldn't focus on an abstract location, so I focused on the last place I remember clearest before this whole rigmarole started.
- The pomposity and rigmarole they put directors through is astounding.
Synonyms lengthy process, fuss, fuss and bother, bother, commotion, trouble, folderol, ado, pother - 1.1 A long, rambling story or statement.
冗长的废话，胡言乱语 Example sentencesExamples - The others were standing around, drinks in hand, congratulating my cousin on his initiation, and asking us amused tones what we thought of the crazy rigmarole.
- The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
- So aleatoric poetry could be described with historical exactitude as a rigmarole.
Synonyms lengthy explanation, lengthy story, saga, yarn, recitation, burble, burbling, maundering, shaggy-dog story
OriginMid 18th century: apparently an alteration of ragman roll, originally denoting a legal document recording a list of offenses. |