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government office

On-Yomi: チョウ、テイ — Kun-Yomi: やくしょ

Koohii stories:

1) [miknon] 14-8-2006(143): Some bureaucrats at a government office decided that the tunnels of caves need to get street signs, which are then nailed to the walls of the cave.

2) [alantin] 1-11-2007(123): In some of the scarier countries, when someone is invited to visit a "government office", it's actually a dungeon where they're dragged into a cave and nailed to the wall.

3) [gringozolano] 16-6-2008(98): Because of his caveman instincts, Clinton tried to nail Monica L. in his gov't office.

4) [thegeelonghellswan] 8-9-2008(56): The government office is on cave street.

5) [Harrow] 26-5-2009(24): Kafka portrayed a government office as a cavernous space with faceless bureaucrats nailed to their desks.

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