It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else’s job to help me.
这就像一个英国政府滑稽剧:我被从一个部门打发到另一个部门,每个人都说帮助我是他人的事。
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Whitehall farce
The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix, in the 1950s and 1960s. They were in the low comedy tradition of British farce, following the Aldwych farces, which played at the Aldwych Theatre between 1924 and 1933.