Английский Этимологический словарь - rube goldberg
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Rube goldberg
rube goldberg
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~ adj AmE a Rube Goldberg machine etc is very complicated and impractical, in an amusing way; heath robinson BrE ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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also ~ian adjective Etymology: Reuben (Rube) L. Goldberg died 1970 American cartoonist Date: 1931 accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply a kind of ~ contraption…with five hundred moving parts — L. T. Grant; also characterized by such complex means ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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