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English expression of the day – Red tape

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red tape

This is a common English expression we use when we talk about dealing with bureaucracy and government organisations.

Quite often there will be a lot of paperwork to do.

The meaning of this expression is – Bureaucracy or bureaucratic paperwork.

If you have to deal with the government you will often find barriers that stop you from doing what you want to do.

Examples:

It’s hard to open a business in Spain. There is so much red tape.

It’s hard to avoid the red tape if you want to open a small business.


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Filed Under: Audio, B1 (intermediate), B2 (upper-intermediate), English in sixty seconds, Idioms, Vocabulary Tagged With: english b2, english expressions, red tape

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