Heath Robinson in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The name is a play on the artist Heath Robinson.
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Many of his machines are Heath Robinson devices, in that they perform simple tasks in a convoluted and complex fashion.
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In which the unique stand-up builds a Heath Robinson contraption on stage, with a little help from the audience and a lot of jokes.
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Heath Robinson called it "the disastrous war", with an enemy too awful to mock.
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His latest offering for the event is inspired by the wonderful drawings of eccentric spoof inventor Heath Robinson.
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He had built this crazy, Heath Robinson arrangement, but the thing worked the first time we tested it.
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Plants should be watered little and often, supported with string or canes (or a Heath Robinson-style combination of both).
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In the middle is a long table bearing a Heath Robinson arrangement of automatic toasting machines lashed together into a rudimentary production line.
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Despite its Heath Robinson appearance, it functioned at a basic, but efficient level, for almost five years.
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Bike engines are nice but reverse ends up being somewhat Heath Robinson to arrange.
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