Brigadoon
/ˌbrɪɡəˈduːn/noun
In allusive use. A place, person, or phenomenon likened in some way to Brigadoon, especially on account of its mythical or idealized nature, its (romanticized) Scottishness, or its rare, fleeting appearance or occurrence.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Times. From Brigadoon, the name of a fictional Scottish Highland village which materializes for only one day every hundred years, in the 1947 musical of that name by A. J. Lerner and F. Loewe, which was the basis of a popular film adaptation of 1954.
- holding game
- holding ground
- holding operation
- holding paddock
- holding pattern
- holding tank
- hold no brief for
- hold off
- hold on
- hold one's breath
- hold one's ground
- hold one's head up (or hold one's head high)
- hold one's horses
- hold one's nose
- hold one's own
- hold one's peace
- hold (one's) serve (or service)
- hold one's tongue
- hold one's whisht
- hold on to
- hold (or have) a wolf by the ears
- hold (or have) in derision
- hold (or keep) someone/thing at bay
- hold (or put) a gun to someone's head
- hold out