red tapeworm joc.
[Blend of red-tape and tapeworm.]
Red-tapism or a red-tapist regarded as parasitic or as a disease of society.
| 1917 Times 26 Oct. 8/3 Send the papers to the Christchurch Museum in New Zealand as an example of the Red Tape-worm of England. 1918 Studies Dec. 664 The State ought to provide it; but the mechanism is clogged by the red-tapeworm. 1939 Amer. Speech XIV. 6 Others refer disparagingly to ‘poluticians’,..and ‘red tapeworms’. |