cuckoo

Related to cuckoo: Common Cuckoo

be in cloud-cuckoo land

To believe in or be absorbed by unrealistic, idealized, and/or fanciful ideas that are beyond the realms of possibility. If Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry, he's in cloud-cuckoo land!

cloud-cuckoo land

A state or realm of unrealistic and idealized fancy, beyond the realms of possibility. Often preceded by "live/be in." He's always got some harebrained schemes on how to fix the world, all of them right out of cloud-cuckoo land! If Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry, he's living in cloud-cuckoo land!

cuckoo

Crazy. There's a guy on our corner who shouts about the end of the world; I think he's a little cuckoo.

cuckoo in the nest

Someone in a group who is seen as different and ostracized by their peers. Since Sam always got good grades and never got in trouble, he was seen by his unruly peers as a cuckoo in the nest.

live in cloud-cuckoo land

To believe that unrealistic, idealized, and/or fanciful ideas will happen, when in fact they are beyond the realms of possibility. Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry—he's living in cloud-cuckoo land if you ask me!

cloud-cuckoo land

An idealized mythical domain, as in That idea about flying cars is straight out of cloud-cuckoo land. This expression originated as a translation from the Greek of Aristophanes' play The Birds, where it signifies the realm built by the birds to separate the gods from humankind. It came into use in the 1820s. During the 19th century it began to be used for a place of wildly fanciful dreams, unrealistic expectations, or the like, and it also acquired the connotation of "crazy" (from cuckoo, slang for "crazy" since about 1900). Also see la-la land; never-never land.

cuckoo in the nest

an unwelcome intruder in a place or situation.

The female cuckoo often lays its eggs in other birds' nests. Once hatched, the cuckoo fledgling pushes the other birds' fledglings out of the nest.

coo-coo

and cuckoo

1. mod. unconscious. I socked him on the snoot and knocked him coo-coo.

2. mod. insane. How did I ever get involved in this cuckoo scheme, anyway?

cuckoo

verb

See coo-coo

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

Cloud Cuckoo Land

A nonexistent place of perfection, a utopia. This phrase comes from The Birds by the Greek dramatist Aristophanes, in which the birds decide to build a perfect city called Cloud Cuckoo City. Over the years “City” became “Land.”

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释义	cuckoo Related to cuckoo: Common Cuckoo be in cloud-cuckoo land To believe in or be absorbed by unrealistic, idealized, and/or fanciful ideas that are beyond the realms of possibility. If Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry, he's in cloud-cuckoo land! See also: land cloud-cuckoo land A state or realm of unrealistic and idealized fancy, beyond the realms of possibility. Often preceded by "live/be in." He's always got some harebrained schemes on how to fix the world, all of them right out of cloud-cuckoo land! If Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry, he's living in cloud-cuckoo land! See also: land cuckoo Crazy. There's a guy on our corner who shouts about the end of the world; I think he's a little cuckoo. cuckoo in the nest Someone in a group who is seen as different and ostracized by their peers. Since Sam always got good grades and never got in trouble, he was seen by his unruly peers as a cuckoo in the nest. See also: cuckoo, nest live in cloud-cuckoo land To believe that unrealistic, idealized, and/or fanciful ideas will happen, when in fact they are beyond the realms of possibility. Tom thinks he'll be able to live off his bad poetry—he's living in cloud-cuckoo land if you ask me! See also: land, live Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. cloud-cuckoo land An idealized mythical domain, as in That idea about flying cars is straight out of cloud-cuckoo land. This expression originated as a translation from the Greek of Aristophanes' play The Birds, where it signifies the realm built by the birds to separate the gods from humankind. It came into use in the 1820s. During the 19th century it began to be used for a place of wildly fanciful dreams, unrealistic expectations, or the like, and it also acquired the connotation of "crazy" (from cuckoo, slang for "crazy" since about 1900). Also see la-la land; never-never land. See also: land The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. cuckoo in the nest an unwelcome intruder in a place or situation. The female cuckoo often lays its eggs in other birds' nests. Once hatched, the cuckoo fledgling pushes the other birds' fledglings out of the nest. See also: cuckoo, nest Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary coo-coo and cuckoo 1. mod. unconscious. I socked him on the snoot and knocked him coo-coo. 2. mod. insane. How did I ever get involved in this cuckoo scheme, anyway? cuckoo verb See coo-coo McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Cloud Cuckoo Land A nonexistent place of perfection, a utopia. This phrase comes from The Birds by the Greek dramatist Aristophanes, in which the birds decide to build a perfect city called Cloud Cuckoo City. Over the years “City” became “Land.” See also: cloud, cuckoo, land Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: be in cloud-cuckoo land live in cloud-cuckoo land la-la land la-la land, in Cloud Cuckoo Land cloud-cuckoo land beyond the realm(s) of possibility beyond/within the realms of possibility possibility realm References in periodicals archive Sexual dimorphism, detection probability, home range, and parental care in the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Ph.D. Home range and use of habitat of western yellow-billed cuckoos on the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico A listing under the Endangered Species Act would protect the cuckoo's habitat from encroaching development and livestock, experts said. Proposed Protections for Cuckoo Cause Concern The Cuckoo's Calling was published under the pen name Robert Galbraith as Rowling wished to be anonymous. CINEMA FIGHT FOR JK RIGHTS Staff from the British Trust for Ornithology attached transmitters to two cuckoos on the National Trust's Kintail Estate at Lochalsh, Ross and Cromarty. Scientists are now in cloud cuckoo land Our own, hard-working, native dunnocks have to get up early in the morning to feed them, while the cuckoo idles about in the tree canopy. A fly-by-night migrant with a bug to bear Cuckoo Clock - Brown LYN0774 PS34.99 Cuckoo Clock - Cream LYN0775 PS34.99 TIME FOR A CHANG! On presentation, the cuckoo was bright and alert and weighed 13 g. What is your diagnosis? Keywords: William Wordsworth, Romantic Aesthetics, Poetry, Nature, Cuckoo Romantic Aesthetics in "The Cuckoo" If people had been fair to the cuckoo, the colloquial name-calling would have stopped with this imitation of its song. Growing up Cuckoo: far from being crazy, these unusual birds use every evolutionary strategy to give their offspring--and themselves--the edge But it's a labour of love for Roman Piekarski and his brother Maz, who first become fascinated by cuckoo clocks years ago while undergoing apprenticeships as clock repairers. Cuckoo clocks don't leave us with any time on our hands There's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" the novel, "Cuckoo's Nest" the play and "Cuckoo's Nest" the Oscar-winning movie. Cuckoo for 'Cuckoo' I'm not sure if Cloud Cuckoo Land has quite the same meaning in German as it does in English. Nesting A dunnock, a bird about the size of a sparrow, was feeding a young cuckoo which was about eight times as big as itself. Our hand in the future: what can be done to avert mass extinction on a scale not seen since the age of the dinosaurs Just aMatter of Time, 1990, consists of fifteen cuckoo clocks, their hands removed. Paul Kos: Berkeley Art Museum THE CALLING OF A CUCKOO by David Jenkins Continuum 192 pages, $49. Are we ready to recognize that 'they' are actually 'us?'
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