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| gen. |
paperwork (Alexander Demidov); paper chase (оформление документов; an official process that prevents you from doing something quickly because it involves writing or reading a lot of documents > bureaucracy, red tape. LDOCE. • To receive even the smallest amount of financial aid from a college, it's a real paper chase. OALD. a paper chase to obtain a university degree. MED Alexander Demidov); paper-warfare (Andrey Truhachev) |
| Gruzovik |
red tape |
| disappr., brit. |
bumf (from "bum fodder" aka toilet paper; today considered a highly colloquial but not impolite term for paperwork (с) Liv Bliss Nurzh) |
| fig. |
bum fodder ("bum fodder" aka toilet paper; today considered a highly colloquial but not impolite term for paperwork (с) Liv Bliss 4uzhoj) |
