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rube goldbergian

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Rube Goldberg

–noun
1. having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
2. deviously complex and impractical: a Rube Goldberg scheme for reducing taxes.
Also, Goldbergian, Rube Goldbergian.


Origin:
1955–60; after Rube (Reuben) Goldberg
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