Synonyms for red tape
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for red tape
Définition of red tape
Origin :- "excessive bureaucratic rigmarole," 1736, in reference to the red tape formerly used in Great Britain (and the American colonies) for binding up legal and other official documents, mentioned from 1690s.
- noun bureaucratic rules
- "It seems to me we're going through a lot of red tape," she said spitefully.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- They think to shave my locks; show me to the people bound by their red tape.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- He tried it, and now he scratched the apparent size of the star into the red tape.
- Extract from : « The Worshippers » by Damon Francis Knight
- I've been meaning to see you, so I volunteered to run out some red tape for your captain.
- Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey
- We have already unraveled yards of red tape, and still there is no end.
- Extract from : « Trapped in 'Black Russia' » by Ruth Pierce
- What is called "red tape" stood in the way of prompt action.
- Extract from : « Stories Of Georgia » by Joel Chandler Harris
- Hence the necessity of red tape, and its delays and vexatious inconveniences.
- Extract from : « Letters from Port Royal » by Various
- His method of achieving the ideal seems to me too full of red tape.
- Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 » by Various
- They were men of spirit and initiative, (p. 421) not easily to be bound by red tape.
- Extract from : « The War in the Air; Vol. 1 » by Walter Raleigh.
- In this manner, at least we avoid a great amount of red tape and delay.
- Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 11 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant
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