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Fool's paradise   /fulz pˈɛrədˌaɪs/   Listen
Fool's paradise

noun
1.
An illusory state of wellbeing.






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"Fool's paradise" Quotes from Famous Books



... with such of the ladies as are accustomed to enjoy that honor.... At six the carriages are at the door. The king is in one of them with Madame de Montespan, Monsieur and Madame de Thianges, and honest d'Heudicourt in a fool's paradise on the stool. You know how these open carriages are made; they do not sit face to face, but all looking the same way. The queen occupies another with the princess; and the rest come flocking after, as it may happen. There ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... to alight. I knew my doom. Farewell to all my glorious visions! I could have hurled back into the face of the laughing sun, my hate, and called him deceiver and traitor; for had he not, with other causes conspired to smile me, five minutes ago, into a fool's paradise? ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard



Words linked to "Fool's paradise" :   wellbeing, upbeat, welfare, eudaimonia, eudaemonia, well-being



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