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magic pudding

magic pudding noun: a limitless or endlessly replenished resource.

Noun

magic pudding (plural magic puddings)

  1. (figuratively) A limitless or endlessly replenished resource.
    • Medibank Private is a magic pudding which would make Norman Lindsay proud.2006, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, Volume 286, page 8
    • 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.”2007, Peter Hartcher, Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election: Quarterly Essay, number 25, page 17
    Synonyms:
    widow's cruse

Examples of magic pudding in a sentence

  • 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.2009, John Hirst, Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, page 309:
  • Unfortunately, in a world that prefers magic puddings, technological bullets and simple solutions (preferably implemented painlessly by someone else) achieving sustainability is extremely complex.2009, Richard Everist, The Complete Guide to the Great Ocean Road, page 57:

Synonyms of magic pudding

Forms of magic pudding

pluralmagic puddings

Origin of magic pudding

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

Questions about magic pudding

What does magic pudding mean?
Magic pudding means a limitless or endlessly replenished resource.
How do you use magic pudding in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is magic pudding?
Magic pudding is a noun.
What is the plural of magic pudding?
The plural of magic pudding is magic puddings.

Words near magic pudding in the dictionary

  1. magic packets
  2. magic point
  3. magic points
  4. magic potion
  5. magic potions
  6. magic pudding
  7. magic puddings
  8. magic realism
  9. magic realisms
  10. magic realist
  11. magic realists

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