"It's the same old rigmarole" nghĩa là gì?

"It's the same old rigmarole" có rigmarole là câu chuyện kể lể dông dài -> cụm từ này nghĩa là vẫn những việc đấy, câu chuyện đấy, tình huống/thói quen/quy trình... lặp đi lặp lại một cách nhàm chán, mệt mỏi.

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It was the same old rigmarole and Kwang Meng resolved not to get involved. Like every storm, it would abate in time. It did not call for any resistance (chống đối).

It was the same old rigmarole of 'reedin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic', with never a question to test education, culture, or power to teach. After a half day's examination he gave me a certificate, and the school to somebody else.

And the reply came from more than a hundred voices, young and old. "Alseiass!" Will shook his head sadly. The same old rigmarole. The same old mumbo jumbo (tùm lum tùm la). But people were just as willing to buy it here as they had been in Hibernia.

For a while, Jimmy listened to him working himself up to the same old rigmarole of resentment (oán giận), then he hastily outlined Romney's plan for a trip up-river, with the obvious reservations about the reason for it. "It's not much," he explained. "Just up beyond the mud banks. That's all."

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