Meaning of Alice-in-Wonderland | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Members with a fascination for the horrid to look at the explanatory memorandum, which deals with fresh fruit and vegetables. It discloses the most Alice-in- Wonderland situation ever.”

“What gives this an even more Alice-in-Wonderland feel is that the Average Yearly Progress targets are based on what must be done to achieve this impossible goal...”

“After the creature recites the value of pi—erroneously, as it turns out—its mouth disappears and it splits back into separate geometric shapes. It's an Alice-in-Wonderland moment, to be sure.”

“Declaring that you've agreed to something before you could have known that that is what you were doing has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to it.”

“There was an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to these discussions: most of the key provisions of the draft agreement, aside from the return of POWs, would be made irrelevant by the transcending legitimation of Hanoi's presence in force south of the DMZ.”

“Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado (1885) —which was a hit in America as well as Britain—depicted the Japanese as comic aliens from an Alice-in-Wonderland world.”

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