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Alice-in-Wonderland

[ al-is-in-wuhn-der-land ]

adjective

  1. resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal:

    an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.



Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective

  1. fantastic; irrational
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1

C20: alluding to the absurdities of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's book
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Example Sentences

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A: Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of prescription drug insurance.

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In Waterlog, his celebrated chronicle of swimming through Britain’s waterways, the naturalist Roger Deakin described swimming as having a transformative, Alice-in-Wonderland quality; it was an activity that had power over his perception of self and of time.

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In “Waterlog,” his celebrated chronicle of swimming through Britain’s waterways, the naturalist Roger Deakin described swimming as having a transformative, Alice-in-Wonderland quality; it was an activity that had power over his perception of self and of time.

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Powell has said he is not keen on negative rates – an Alice-in-Wonderland development that has one Danish bank actually paying borrowers to take money off their hands – but it is hard to see what other tools he has.

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McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Chuck Schumer, described this as the “Alice-in-Wonderland” approach: “First the trial, then the evidence.”

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