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Alice-in-Wonderland
[ al-is-in-wuhn-der-land ]
adjective
- resembling a dream or fantasy; unreal:
an Alice-in-Wonderland world of incompleted projects and wishful thinking.
Alice-in-Wonderland
adjective
- fantastic; irrational
Word History and Origins
Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Alice-in-Wonderland1
Example Sentences
A: Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of prescription drug insurance.
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.
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.
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.
McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Chuck Schumer, described this as the “Alice-in-Wonderland” approach: “First the trial, then the evidence.”
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