height of absurdity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofheightandabsurdity
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height
noun[C or U]
uk/haɪt/us/haɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of ...
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absurdity
noun
uk/əbˈzɜː.dɪ.ti/us/əbˈsɝː.də.t̬i/
the quality of being stupid and unreasonable, or silly in a ...
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(Definition ofheightandabsurdityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Certainly the use of natural gas and oil in boilers during the 1980s seems to be theheightofabsurdity.
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To penalise the carer because she happens to look after more than one person is preposterous and theheightofabsurdity.
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It seems to me theheightofabsurdityto have two authorities administering very much the same rules.
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It is theheightofabsurditythat a family's weekly or fortnightly bill for milk and dairy produce should be subject to any complicated procedure.
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That seems to me theheightofabsurdity.
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It is, of course, theheightofabsurdity.
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To adopt such a course as is suggested would be the veryheightofabsurdity.
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If so, it would he theheightofabsurdity.
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It must be theheightofabsurdityto penalise industry in this way.
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In the face of this brilliant success story, it is theheightofabsurdityto propose their privatisation.
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Therefore, it is theheightofabsurdityto spend that money here.
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To allow a position of that kind to continue seems to me to be theheightofabsurdity.
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To try to do so would be theheightofabsurdity.
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It would be theheightofabsurdityand vanity to pretend that we won the war.
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Here we have theheightofabsurdityin drawing such a distinction.
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Is it not theheightofabsurdityto pay men to stay at home when they are needed in industry?
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How did the then government put through thatheightofabsurdity, the poll tax?
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It seems to me theheightofabsurdityto have this doctrinaire provision of privatisation at all costs, irrespective of the consequences.
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It would be theheightofabsurdityto put such exports, upon which a great deal of employment is based, at peril by unreasonable action.
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It would be theheightofabsurdityto call 60 or 65 nations together that they might discuss so difficult a task as inter-departmental debts.
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