Idiom
cat's cradle
Meaning
Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The wires behind my desk are a total cat's cradle.”
“The new tax law is such a cat's cradle that even the accountants cannot explain it.”
“The legal contract was a tangled cat's cradle of clauses that seemed designed to confuse rather than clarify the agreement.”
Examples
simple
“The wires behind my desk are a total cat's cradle.”
contextual
“The new tax law is such a cat's cradle that even the accountants cannot explain it.”
complex
“The legal contract was a tangled cat's cradle of clauses that seemed designed to confuse rather than clarify the agreement.”
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