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rip van winkle
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette . The English libretto by Henry Brougham Farnie was based on the stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person out of touch with current conditions," 1829, from name of character in Washington Irving's "Sketch Book" (1819-20).
Usage examples of rip van winkle.
In a sense, he is a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, who lets the world around him change while he waits and hopes for his life to fall in step with the times.
Sandra was engrossed in the Rip Van Winkle theme and was bowled over himself and noticed nothing.
I raced Errol into his office, the desk and furniture classic public sector, cheap alloy and imitation wood, the air thick with the stench of stale overtime, which brought back the memories of my long nights on the graveyard shift as a toll collector on the Rip van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson, back in Columbia.