red tape

red tape

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  • [贬义]烦琐和拖拉的公事程序；官样文章；繁文缛节

• vatting
• lapis lazuli
• cautel
• engine balance
• wrecky
• metapolitician
• wireline
• fines
• quantifiably
• be nothing to write home about
• undersides
• Dutch tile
• acaustophytolith
• drop-kick
• mind your own business
• cacorhythmic
• BEF
• paranomia
• beach bum
• etamins
• toponymy
• redneckism
• composite shot
• catechiser
• refrigerated trucking
• undersurfaces
• quadrillions
• Pichia
• Arctic Circle
• gertrude
• Lovell, Sir Bernard
• blast away
• gild the lily
• tambourin
• stepsons
• verrucae
• council flat
• cutthroat competition
• Nkrumah, Kwame
• entomophily
• Pine Bluff
• night commode
• bioptomes
• dixit
• Germanisms
• strontium nitrate
• turn on sth
• picotees
• five o'clock shadows
• E-vector
• praenomen
• Distress Signals
• screw dislocations
• lay paper
• desi
• a woman of the streets
• muton
• blanket stiff
• desktop publishing program
• waistcoat
• Sezession
• Kairouan, Kairwan
• bluster oneself into anger
• pleasantly
• altiplanation
• fog scale
• rheumatoid factor
• anoraky
• put one's finger in the fire
• win out
• tuckaway
• brnoes
• load balancing
• mainliners
• toffee-brown
• bases
• probating
• osse-
• iatrophysical
• fixed echo
• Waldorfs
• pwt
• xanthan
• be mentioned in despatches
• coalies
• enforce sth on/upon
• badman
• shareowners
• write sb down as
• nitpickers
• intracellular symbiosis
• amide group
• recalesced
• my goodness / my God etc
• Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich
• line drive
• in crowds
• cottonwoods
• shabbiness
• normalisation