Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.
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- noun An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.
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- noun an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
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Examples
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Creative Control - Part 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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The evocation of the deadly cloud-cuckoo-land of Russia during Stalin's final days will remind many of Gorky Park and Darkness at Noon, but the novel remains Smith's alone, completely original and absolutely satisfying.
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Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash.
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(To hold up perfection as a standard is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land.)
Speculation On Why Harper Has Sent Us To Polls « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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In the cloud-cuckoo-land of the market fundamentalist, the MBA-wielding businesswomen pursue their own self-interest and, through the magic of the market, manage to do good by doing well.
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He was big and he was strong, but he had never seen anything like the sledgehammer left hook that sent him to cloud-cuckoo-land.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Scots must be singularly stupid if they are taken in by this sort of patronising cloud-cuckoo-land hogwash.
Archive 2008-02-03 2008
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He was big and he was strong, but he had never seen anything like the sledgehammer left hook that sent him to cloud-cuckoo-land.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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(To hold up perfection as a standard is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land.)
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