Chinese puzzle

Language: en

Meaning: A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.1947,Malcolm Lowry,Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,page343:The Consul carried another drink with Yvonne’s letters into an inner room, one of the boxes in theChinese puzzle.; (figurative,idiomatic)A senselesssituation.

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