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cat's cradle
noun
1
: a game in which a string looped in a pattern like a cradle on the fingers of one person's hands is transferred to the hands of another so as to form a different figure
2
: something that is intricate, complicated, or elaborate
a cat's cradle of red tape
Examples of cat's cradle in a Sentence
a cat's cradle of government regulations
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The image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle.
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
But that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
But that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
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“Cat's cradle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cat%27s%20cradle. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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