rigmarole , also: rigamarole AmE

No, she'd only have to go through the same rigmarole to get out.

What a lot of rigmarole, to work up to that question!

This is the rigmarole he got off to me the other day.

If he needed to go through all this rigmarole, it must be something important.

"Then why do we have to go through all this rigmarole of watching?"

Anyway, he come out and I told him all rigmarole!

And now what am I driving at, in all this long rigmarole?

Then you have to go through the whole rigmarole before your return journey.

"People will go through the rigmarole to see the quality films."

Now you'll be wondering what all this rigmarole is about.

I went into some rigmarole about how she had left them once and perhaps things ought to stay that way.

There is no time to waste on that kind of rigmarole.

I signed this rigmarole and held the book for her to see it.

Was this rigmarole going to lead anywhere, or would it really be a dead end?

Always, he said, and then began a rigmarole about having found the window a few inches open at the bottom.

You wouldn't believe the rigmarole we have to go through in order to make love to each other.

My god what a rigmarole just to find a comment box in the wrong section.

I can understand that they don't want to get, to to go through the rigmarole of court.

I went through an incredible rigmarole before he'd agree to sell.

The science staff always go through this rigmarole, don't they?

The nightly rigmarole of getting her settled is finally over.

None of this rigmarole had occurred to him before he spoke.

Going through that rigmarole wouldn't protect what we have at all.

As they were processed, an addition to the rigmarole surprised him.

"Do you think I want to listen to the rigmarole of your filthy trade?"