TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Mr_Westerfield t3_10om0ud on January 29, 2023 at 11:22 PM in todayilearned 90 comments 780
2_short_Plancks t1_j6fudsa wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:01 AM Huh. My dad has always used this phrase, and I just assumed he'd mangled the original phrase (he has a tendency to do that). He's in his 70s and from NZ, for the record. Permalink 2
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