cloud-cuckoo-land
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Calque of Ancient Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugía), from Aristophanes.
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cloud-cuckoo-land (uncountable)
- An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.
- 1916, Aldous Huxley, “The Walk”, in The Burning Wheel:
- That glabrous dome that lifts itself so grand, / There in the marish, is the omphalos, / The navel, umbo, middle, central boss / Of the unique, sole, true Cloud-Cuckoo Land.
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imaginary place with unrealistic or silly people
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- cloud cuckoo land on Wikipedia.Wikipedia