What is Red Tape?
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When you want to do something, but it'd be a pain in the ass because of many complications.
I'd love to kill my boss, but there'd be too much red tape involved
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government procedures, forms, etc
I'm sick of all this red tape.
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All that bureaucracy, its just red tape they could proceed so much faster if they wanted. Cut through the red tape
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When your boss hates your guts or envies your smarts that he requires you to go through an oppressively time-consuming sequence of procedures before you can get approval to do something, especially when you are filing for a vacation leave.
My boss sent me through a whole-day worth of red tape to get approval on a half-day vacation.
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