Rube Goldberg invention
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In Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism."
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He described his "smilometer," a wooden box almost five feet long filled with machinery as intricate as a Rube Goldberg invention.
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The success, in short, is plain to see; but the secret of it, like the motive force in a Rube Goldberg invention, is hidden in the depths of an astonishing psychological contraption.
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