rigmarole

• Mamoni Raisom always manages to rescue humanism from the clutches of the rigmarole, the grind of daily life, misunderstandings and human failings. —  a reader's words
• "The rigmarole is a lot, which is why I'm only going to Rebecca's show," said actress —  Home | The New York Observer
• It is as if they had been named by the child's rigmarole--_Iery wiery ichery van, tittle-tol-tan_. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• "What object have you in all this"--rigmarole, I was about to say, but regard for his feelings changed it into "troublesome sum Jim looked sheepish Now, Miss Amy," broke in Bill, "he's got peanuts on his mind; how much he could make on settin' up some one in the peanut-business, an' gettin' his own profits off it. —  Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
• He never was very good at it; but this is the handwriting of delirium tremens He opened the letter, and glanced at the first page Oh yes," he said, in disgust, "he's off again, clearly What does he say The usual rigmarole--only not quite so legible. —  Sunrise

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