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magic pudding

noun

Etymology

A reference to the title character in Norman Lindsay's 1918 children′s book The Magic Pudding.

Definitions

  1. A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.

    • 2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, Volume 286, page 8, Medibank Private is a magic pudding which would make Norman Lindsay proud.
    • Is this a magic pudding? A CSIRO policy economist who has worked with the modelling, Dr Steve Hatfield Dodds, said: “It's not so much a magic pudding as long-term, carefully planned structural adjustment.”
    • Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for magic pudding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA