Rube Goldberg

(American informal)

a Rube Goldberg piece of equipment or plan is very complicated and not very practical

Usage notes: Rube Goldberg was an American who drew funny pictures for newspapers showing complicated inventions.

They use a Rube Goldberg type contraption to open and close the farm gate. The city is not well served by this Rube Goldberg scheme for economic development.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hekabe	-	Greek Mythology
Into	EEN-to	Finnish
Michael	MIE-kəl (English), MI-khah-el (German), MEE-kah-el (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Ala Al-Din	-	Arabic
Shyama	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi
Azar	-	Persian