person from Porlock
English
editEtymology
editIn reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.
Noun
editperson from Porlock (plural persons from Porlock or people from Porlock)
- (idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
- Synonym: man from Porlock