fog-landn.1
/ˈfɒɡland/, U.S. /ˈfɔɡˌlænd/, /ˈfɑɡˌlænd/ A land affected by fog or mist. Frequently figurative: a situation in which precision or clear thinking is lacking.
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1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. i. 2 In Freeze-land, Fog-land and some other lands I wot of.
1840 H. Mann Lect. Educ. 30 Could children be habituated..to seeing and feeling ideas as distinctly as though they were geometrical solids, they would then experience an insupportable uneasiness, whenever they were lost in fog-land.
1886 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 411 We reach the outer boundary of the clear regions of science, and step into the luminous fogland of poetry.
1941 San Marino (Calif.) Tribune 24 Apr. 2/2 We must unlearn a lot of the fog-land stuff that is falsely labeled as higher education.
2015 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 May a17 Some..pride themselves on ‘balanced journalism’, but then slip into fog-land by giving equal time to true heroes and un-hanged rogues.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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