Why Do We Say Rigmarole?
Some People Spell the Word 'Rigamarole'. Any Long, Foolish, Confusing Speech or Discourse Can Be Called a Rigmarole — Think of the Speeches and Interviews...
Some people spell the word 'rigamarole'. Any long, foolish, confusing speech or discourse can be called a rigmarole — think of the speeches and interviews shown on Television. ... The word comes from 'ragman roll', a game children played in the past. *The speaker went into a long rigmarole about the awards he had won.
Where did the expression rigmarole come from?
By the 16th century, ragman and ragman roll were being used figuratively to mean "a list or catalog." Both terms fell out of written use, but ragman roll persisted in speech, and in the 18th century it resurfaced in writing as rigmarole, with the meaning "a succession of confused, meaningless, or foolish statements." ...
What is rigmarole sentence?
a set of confused and meaningless statements 2. a long and complicated and confusing procedure. 1 He had to go through the usual rigmarole of signing legal papers in order to complete the business deal. 2 Then the whole rigmarole starts over again. 3 I've never heard such a rigmarole.
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