Idiom
merry dance
Meaning
A useless waste of time resulting from a deception.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The store sent me on a merry dance to find a refund.”
“The clerk sent me on a merry dance across the city, only to tell me the item was out of stock.”
“After the bureaucracy led him on a merry dance through countless departments, he realized they had no intention of ever approving his request.”
Examples
simple
“The store sent me on a merry dance to find a refund.”
contextual
“The clerk sent me on a merry dance across the city, only to tell me the item was out of stock.”
complex
“After the bureaucracy led him on a merry dance through countless departments, he realized they had no intention of ever approving his request.”
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