ALICE IN WONDERLAND

PRONUNCIATION: (AL-is in WUHN-duhr-land)

MEANING: noun: An absurd, illogical, or fantastical situation.
adjective: Absurd, dreamlike, fantastical, or illogical.

ETYMOLOGY: After Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), a children’s novel by Lewis Carroll. Earliest documented use: 1874.
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MALICE IN WONDERLAND - wondrous, but insensitive and cruel

ALICE IN "WON'T!"ERLAND - a fanciful name for child development's Terrible Twos

A LICK IN WONDERLAND - the most exquisite ice cream you've never tasted