circumlocution office

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any organization that wastes time on bureaucracy to the detriment of its actual business.
    — The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without having to be told) the most important Department under government. […] It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office.

词形变化

circumlocution offices plural Circumlocution Office alternative

词源

Introduced in Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit.
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