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 tornado tornado May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 at 10:08:37 PM UTC link Permalink

I've translated the sentence literally, but does it also have an idiomatic meaning without "red"?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_red_tape

tornado tornado May 26, 2015, edited May 27, 2015 May 26, 2015 at 11:47:24 PM UTC, edited May 27, 2015 at 12:03:58 AM UTC link Permalink

Thanks. I asked that because the list that the sentence belongs to has many idiomatic expressions.

https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...283/und/page:2

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