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fool's paradise
Also 9 fool-paradise.
1. A state of illusory happiness or good fortune; enjoyment based on false hopes or anticipations.
1462W. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 457 II. 109, I wold not be in a folis paradyce. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. ii. in Ashm. (1652) 28 For lewde hope is fooles Paradice. 1528Roy Rede Me (Arb.) 86 Thus my lady, not very wyse, Is brought in-to foles paradyse. 1687Bp. Cartwright in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 189 Populacy..is the Fool's Paradise. 1709E. W. Life of Donna Rosina 148 Thus was an old experienc'd villain brought into a Fool's Paradice. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xii. xxxii, You have been revelling in a fool's paradise of leisure. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 341 Love's fool-paradise Is out of date, like Adam's.
†2. (See quot.) Obs.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies i. xxix. 257 Those triangular glasses or prismes which some do call fooles Paradises. |