Rube Gold|berg

Rube Gold|berg
Rube Gold|berg «ROOB GOHLD burg»,
(of an invention, device, or scheme) ridiculously complicated: »

He called the three-gun color tube used by present manufacturers, “a Rube Goldberg contraption if there ever was one” (Wall Street Journal).

[< Rue Goldberg, 1883-1970, an American cartoonist noted for a cartoon series depicting fantastically complicated mechanical inventions for performing the simplest tasks]

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