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The term, red rope, for expandable file folders came from a manufacturer of this type of file folders. It is the type of material that is used in this folder. Red rope is also a term for red hemp.
The use of one country's existing political structures by the colonizing country for governance
If by DAT tape, the person asking means data tape, this can be purchased at any major electronics or hardware store, including Best Buy, Target, PC Richard's or Sears.
is it not to have political competation
As long as it is the original bill of sale it is fine to tape it back together as long as the content of the sale is not altered or too badly damaged.
The term has been in use since the 17th Century when legal documents were bound or tied in red tape
The term "red tape" doesn't come literature, but from history. In the 1300's documents/letters were sent by hand so a red tape was wrapped around the folded document/letter and sealing wax was used across the opening of document. When it arrived to the person who was getting it and they found the seal broken they knew that someone had read the letter/document. That is why today the term is used that things are tied up in "red tape."
"Red Tape" is not red, or even tape - it is a colloquial expression meaning "sluggish, plodding bureaucracy". To repeat: It is just an expression - it has nothing to do with "tape", red or otherwise.
Any time you have paper work that you must do for some reason that is "red tape." The term comes from the 1500's when important papers were sealed with sealing wax and bound with red tape to show that they hadn't been tampered with or looked at. If the red tape and sealing wax was broken the person who got the papers knew that they had been seen, changed, or used in some way.
It is red tape.
Red Tape - album - was created in 1976.
Red tape
Tape, as in "Tape worm", "Red tape" and this is the other one although the word "Ducked" is spelt "Duct", "Duct tape".
The duration of The Blood Red Tape of Charity is 600.0 seconds.
Red (red tape, red letter, red pepper, red handed)
My parents put red tape all around my Christmas gift.
That person is underage.