Meaning of magic pudding | Babel Free

Definitions

A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.

figuratively

Examples

“2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, Volume 286, page 8, Medibank Private is a magic pudding which would make Norman Lindsay proud.”

“Is this a magic pudding? A CSIRO policy economist who has worked with the modelling, Dr Steve Hatfield Dodds, said: “It's not so much a magic pudding as long-term, carefully planned structural adjustment.””

“Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more.”

“Unfortunately, in a world that prefers magic puddings, technological bullets and simple solutions (preferably implemented painlessly by someone else) achieving sustainability is extremely complex.”

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