cat's cradle

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Noun

cat's cradle (countable and uncountable, plural cat's cradles)

  1. (uncountable) A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers.
  2. (countable, idiomatic) Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.

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