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
lazyMarthaStewart t1_j6fn1ds wrote on January 30, 2023 at 12:11 AM I had not heard the phrase before either, until I read the book, which was extraordinary. Permalink 13 [deleted] t1_j6h7guj wrote on January 30, 2023 at 8:13 AM [deleted] Permalink Parent 1
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