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Alice in wonderland
What is the meaning of "Alice in wonderland"
Please give some usage note of this phrase with some example sentences.
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Re: Alice in wonderland
It's a famous story/book and also a recent movie.
But it can mean other things, too.
What is the context?
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Re: Alice in wonderland
I read the book. But it is different.
In a newspaper line, some years ago, can't recollect the context though. But remember the sentence: "This is no Alice in Wonderland."
Another example I got on a website.
"Nevertheless, it is hard not to see some Alice-in-Wonderland logic in action here."
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Re: Alice in wonderland

Originally Posted by
Adam Cruge
I read the book. But it is different.
In a newspaper line, some years ago, can't recollect the context though. But remember the sentence: "This is no Alice in Wonderland."
Another example I got on a website.
"Nevertheless, it is hard not to see some Alice-in-Wonderland logic in action here."
A lot of the characters in the book played around with logic - especially, but not just, Humpty Dumpty. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote the book under the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll" - was a mathematician with an interest in logic.
In this context, 'Alice-in-Wonderland logic' means 'means of argument that seems superficially to make a weird kind of sense but is contrary to common sense'.
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