Alice in Wonderland

English Alternative forms en Alice-in-Wonderland Etymology Derives from the children's fantasy story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Adjective Alice in Wonderland en figurative As in a surreal fairy tale where things work at odds to the way they do in the real world. en Alice in Wonderlandish en 1978 Popular Mechanics 149 4 Apr 204 It is an Alice in Wonderland question. Let me answer it this way: To design a car, you must — emphasize must — have restrictions to guide you. en 1987 Acres, U.S.A.: Volume 6 The law-making affair often has an Alice in Wonderland touch. Terms are defined by law, and if the law says black is white, then for the purpose of the law, black is white. en Sep 7 1992 Network World 9 36 37 IBM's current system and network management story has an Alice in Wonderland touch to it, with incongruity as the prevailing theme. Just as it is in Wonderland, most things in IBM's management story are not what they appear to be. en 2001 w:Phil Gramm Congressional Record-Senate, March 29, 2001 5053 What makes this debate an Alice in Wonderland debate is that the people who support this bill are the very people who will benefit from taking the American people out of the debate by limiting the ability of people to put up their time. en 2002 Alan Stripp Codebreaker in the Far East 35 It became more Alice in Wonderland all the time: was I now to navigate as well? en 2008 Lisa Margonelli Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank 68 This is all a little more Alice in Wonderland than I had expected. en 2012 Israel: The Will to Prevail Danny Danon 69 Herzog further noted that the United Nations developed an Alice in Wonderland perspective on Israel. en 2014 The Demilitarization of American Diplomacy L. Pope Tautology is not a problem in an Alice in Wonderland world in which a junior official can be said to coordinate the work of the Secretary of State. Translations as in a surreal fairy tale Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 愛麗絲夢遊仙境 Àilìsī Mèngyóu Xiānjìng German: de Alice im Wunderland f Japanese: ja 不思議の国のアリス fushigi no kuni no Arisu (のような) Polish: pl jak w krainie czarów Russian: (ru как) ru Али́са в Стране́ чуде́с f Spanish: de es Alicia en el mundo de maravillas Welsh: cy Alys yng Ngwlad Hud Noun Alices in Wonderland s Alice in Wonderland en figurative An observer of strange, incomprehensible or disorienting situations. en 1965 To Dragma - Volume 56, Issue 11 Alpha Omicron Pi 24 After three years of meeting in a tiny room in the student center, we were stunned that we could all get in one room and move around without stepping on each other. It wasn't crowded; and besides that, it was beautiful. We felt like 50 Alices in Wonderland. en 1980 House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 3 Canada. Parliament. House of Commons 3251 But I do not live in a riding that represents the Alice in Wonderlands of the world, Mr. Speaker. en 2014 Jumping: A Novel Jane Peranteau 189 I'm giddy. I haven't even stopped to notice my surroundings. I'm not much of an Alice in Wonderland. en 2014 It's the Pictures That Got Small Anthony Slide 4 Brackett views the community rather as might an Alice in Wonderland according to the entries in his diaries, although the same diary entries do not reflect his later claim that he “was assigned to twelve different stories in my first year." en figurative A strange, fantasylike creation or situation that follows its own bizarre logic. en 2012 Congestive Heart Failure J. Morganroth; E. Neil Moore I think it is an Alice in Wonderland to say we are going to approve another drug, yet the whole fundamental thing is we still have exactly the same mortality and nobody has anything that impacts on it. en 2014 The Beatles Are Here!: Penelope Rowlands Sgt. Pepper seemed to be nothing less than an Alice in Wonderland for the brave new psychedelic world. en June 26, 2019 The Takeout Eric Trump went to a fancy Chicago cocktail bar and got spat on Kevin Pang Some context: The Aviary is like the Alice in Wonderland of cocktail bars, a place where drinks are served in porthole vessels or in sphere/foam/gelee form (there’s an outpost in New York City, but the original is in Chicago). Derived terms en Alice in Wonderland syndrome See also en caucus race Cheshire cat rabbit hole mad hatter en eponyms en Fictional characters Lewis Carroll