To be made to jump through hoops like a circus animal Home The Lexicon To be made to jump through hoops like a circus animal Thumbnail Phrase or WordTo be made to jump through hoops like a circus animalDefinitionForced through arbitrarily complex steps or procedures; often bureaucratic.LanguageEnglishTypeFaunamorphSubcategoryThe Natural World in GeneralGrammatical SubcategoryVerbs: Actions/States of Being Previous itemTo crawl out of one’s lair Next itemTo get one’s hide nailed to the shed
