Use the phrase red tape when you're talking about something that takes much longer than it should and involves more procedures, forms, or rules than make sense.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality.
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Red-tape
Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See
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