Heath Robinson

Noun

Meaning

Heath Robinson (plural Heath Robinsons)

(chiefly UK, attributive) Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

Heath Robinsonesque Heath Robinsonian

Examples

Another was an odd Heath Robinson contraption that invites you to turn a lever. Source: Internet

In the course of his work Heath Robinson also wrote and illustrated three children's books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), Bill the Minder (1912) and Peter Quip in Search of a Friend (1922). Source: Internet

Robinson's cartoons were so popular that in Britain the term "Heath Robinson" is used to refer to an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering. Source: Internet

Heath Robinson even sketched a 'machine to express criticism of statues', which parodied such vandalism, which continued round the country for the next few years. Source: Internet

For infoboxcheck William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives. Source: Internet

Jack Copeland, "Machine against Machine", pp. 64-77 in B. Jack Copeland, ed., in citation The Wrens nicknamed the machine the " Heath Robinson ", after the cartoonist of the same name who drew humorous drawings of absurd mechanical devices. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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