cuckoo-land
short for cloud-cuckoo-land. Hence cuckoo-lander.
| 1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 49 For still in Cuckoo-Land they're labouring, With hopes undamped and undiscouraged hearts. Ibid. 50 And Cuckoo-Landers not a few shall prove. 1958 Observer 28 Sept. 17/1, I am afraid that your paper..is living in a cuckoo-land. Have you no idea what ordinary Cockney people..feel about this mass invasion [of coloured people]? |