circumlocution
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Dickens’s Circumlocution Office, a government department that exists to do nothing, inhabits the same fictional reality as all the indolent, corrupt, authoritarian governors and tyrants in García Márquez’s work.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2014
Barnacle was head of the Circumlocution Office and believed in only hiring his relations.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2013
Into this gloomy place enters, unexpectedly, Barnacle, youngest scion of the Barnacle family, the bloodsuckers who run the Circumlocution Office, that body dedicated to seeing that nothing worth happening ever happens.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010
The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We will see him," returned Callard; adding to Johnson, "We are in luck's way; the English adviser does his best to lessen the inconveniences of the Circumlocution Office."
From Round the World in Seven Days by Strang, Herbert
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