TheSalmonBeast t1_j6fucyy wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:01 AM Reply to 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 by Mr_Westerfield I thought it was an old circus term Permalink 1
TheSalmonBeast t1_j6fucyy wrote
Reply to 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 by Mr_Westerfield
I thought it was an old circus term