All 4 Uses of
red tape
in
Atlas Shrugged
- "Draw up all the papers and all the red tape in the name of the John Galt Line," she said.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- It's only a new form of legal red tape.†
Chpt 1.8
- You know how it is nowadays, with the inefficiency of all office help and with the amount of red tape we're tangled in, some bungling fool mixed the records and processed the attachment order against you-when it wasn't your case at all, it was, in fact, the case of a soap manufacturer!†
Chpt 3.6
- And with all those damn formalities that we have to go through-you know how it is, red tape!†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
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(red tape) time-consuming bureaucratic procedures -- especially those that seem needless