Meaning of Heath Robinson | Babel Free

Definitions

Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.

UK, attributive

Examples

“Among the many Heath Robinson contraptions he devised were the Light Vessels (the Sun and the Moon) which would ferry the rescued Light-Particles back to their land of origin along the Milky Way.”

“And that is how we came to mow our lake weed, although we eventually found it easier to tie two ropes, one to each side of the inner tube, and to pull the Heath Robinson contraption back and forwards across the water with Chris and I standing on opposite banks, each holding one of the lines.”

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