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Chinese puzzle
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.
343 The Consul carried another drink with Yvonne’s letters into an inner room, one of the boxes in the Chinese puzzle.
en figurative idiomatic A senseless situation.