wheels within wheels
Complex interacting processes, agents, or motives, as in It's difficult to find out just which government agency is responsible; there are wheels within wheels. This term, which now evokes the complex interaction of gears, may derive from a scene in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:16): “Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” [c. 1600]
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Or are there wheels within wheels here we cannot even imagine?
Cheated by Death: No Euphoria in Ram Singh’s Hanging | Dilip D’Souza | March 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTwheels within wheels moved in his brain as he thought of the incredible irony of this ceremony.
Ay, ay, Tammas, but there's wheels within wheels ye ken naething about; I canna do't.
Scotch Wit and Humor | W. H. (Walter Henry) HoweMatch-making involves so many parties, there are such wheels within wheels of calculation and resource.
Girlhood and Womanhood | Sarah TytlerThere are wheels within wheels, all of which I would explain to you, only I fear that there is not time.
Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
Rome at this time was a place where there were wheels within wheels.
Romance of Roman Villas | Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) ChampneyThey soon stood before a great throbbing monster, a mystery of wheels within wheels and of gleaming steel.
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