OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10299

imbroglio

/ɪmˈbɹəʊljəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embrollo
A complicated situation; an entanglement.
Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Ital…
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