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noun
- 1. a state of absurdly over-optimistic fantasy: "anyone who believes that the Bill will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land"
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Cloud Cuckoo Land is the name of a realm hidden inside a cloud featured in The Lego Movie. An iconoclastic, mixed-genre world where there are no rules or unhappy things and serves as a hidden base for the rebel protagonists and councils of Master Builder.
The meaning of CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND is a realm of fantasy or of whimsical or foolish behavior. How to use cloud-cuckoo-land in a sentence.
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND definition: 1. to think that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how…. Learn more.
cloud cuckoo land meaning: 1. to think that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how…. Learn more.
The term made its debut in English (as Cloud Cuckoo Land, a literal translation of the original Greek) in an 1824 translation of Aristophanes’ play by Henry Francis Cary: ‘What shall our city’s name be? […] Cuckoocloudland. Will that do?’ Yes, that’s right. Cloud Cuckoo Land was originally Cuckoo Cloud Land.
The phrase “cloud cuckoo land” means to live in a silly fantasy world, or not in an ideal state of mind. It also means a person expecting impossibility to become a possibility. It is mostly used as “live in a cloud cuckoo land” or “a cloud cuckoo lander.”.
Cloud-cuckoo-land definition: an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland. See examples of CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND used in a sentence.
