Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
Etymologies
- Translating Ancient Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugia), in Aristophanes. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.”
“The evocation of the deadly cloud-cuckoo-land of Russia during Stalin's final days will remind many of Gorky Park and Darkness at Noon, but the novel remains Smith's alone, completely original and absolutely satisfying.”
“In the cloud-cuckoo-land of the market fundamentalist, the MBA-wielding businesswomen pursue their own self-interest and, through the magic of the market, manage to do good by doing well.”
The Huffington Post: John Feffer: The Fallacy of the Talented Tenth
“He was big and he was strong, but he had never seen anything like the sledgehammer left hook that sent him to cloud-cuckoo-land.”
“(To hold up perfection as a standard is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land.)”
Speculation On Why Harper Has Sent Us To Polls « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
“Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash.”
“He did not force Gore to debate a crackpot from cloud-cuckoo-land who is still waiting for the evidence to arrive about human sources of radical climate change.”
“As Jessica Mitford described it in her classic accusation of a book, "The American Way of Death," the end of life has become a "grotesque cloud-cuckoo-land where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying.”
“Why, it would not even surprise me to find my own memoirs classified as fiction, myself relegated to cloud-cuckoo-land.”
“To the despair of the Europhiles, who inhabit their own cloud-cuckoo-land of idealism, it is sentiments like this, amongst ordinary people, which I believe are eventually going to bring the "project" down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cloud-cuckoo-land’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Clouds
We owe our current names for clouds to Luke Howard. Wikipedia tells us that "Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had earlier proposed a ...
wane-cloud, stratus, cirrostratus, cirro-stratus, strato-cirrus, altostratus, salmon-cloud, cumulus, altocumulus lenti..., sonder-cloud, rain-cloud, nimbostratus and 205 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 224 more...
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Wirds of a Feather
Phrases and figures of speech in which birds are featured. Or feathers. Or such like.
a little bird tol..., to have an albatr..., birds of a feathe..., in the catbird seat, cold turkey, to cook one's goose, don't count your ..., to have one's duc..., to eat crow, a feather in one'..., for the birds, flip the bird and 122 more...
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