107.9 The River » ‘Cutting Through the Red Tape’ http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Fri, 24 May 2013 19:14:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 What's the Real Story Behind the Phrase 'Cutting Through the Red Tape'? http://theriver1079.com/the-real-story-cutting-through-the-red-tape/ http://theriver1079.com/the-real-story-cutting-through-the-red-tape/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:00:56 +0000 Carl Pettit http://tsminteractive.com/?p=90634 When you have to ‘cut through the red tape,’ it means your have to slog through lots of bureaucratic mud in order to achieve the goals you set out to achieve.

How did tape — colored tape at that — come to represent the headaches that mounds of paperwork, unpleasant clerks and by-the-book functionaries cause us when we’re trying to get something done?

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