Alice-in-Wonderland
adjective /ˌælɪs ɪn ˈwʌndəlænd/
/ˌælɪs ɪn ˈwʌndərlænd/
[only before noun]- used to describe a situation that is very strange, in which things happen that do not make any sense and are the opposite of what you would expect
- I felt I was in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.
- In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of European agriculture, farmers are paid more to grow more even when nobody wants to buy what they produce.
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Word OriginFrom the title of a children’s story by Lewis Carroll.