rigmarole

suomi-englanti sanakirja

rigmarole englannista suomeksi

1. jaarittelu

2. ruljanssi

0. Substantiivi

1. ruljanssi

rigmarole englanniksi

1. A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless; seemingly unnecessary hoops.

(synonyms)

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2. Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.

3. {{quote-journal|en|year=1847|author=Thomas De Quincey|title=Secret Societies|journal=Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

4. {{quote-book|en|year=1854|author=Henry David Thoreau|title=s:Walden|chapter=VII

5. 1880, (w), ''Blighted Life|A Blighted Life'', sxn 4:

His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked.

6. (quote-book)

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1895|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|title=The Valima Letters|chapter=XIX

8. {{quote-book|en|year=1910|author=A. E. W. Mason|title=s:At the Villa Rose|chapter=XVII

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1915|author=John Buchan|title=s:The Thirty-Nine Steps|chapter=1

10. Prolix; tedious.