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yellow brick road

n. (context idiomatic often humorous English) A proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.

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Yellow brick road

The Yellow Brick Road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913).

The road's most notable portrayal is in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie The Wizard of Oz, loosely based on Baum's first Oz book. In the novel's first edition the road is mostly referred to as the "Road of Yellow Bricks". In the original story and in later films based on it such as The Wiz (1978), Dorothy Gale must find the road before embarking on her journey, as the tornado did not deposit her farmhouse directly in front of it as in the 1939 film.

Yellow Brick Road (disambiguation)

Yellow Brick Road may refer to:

  • Yellow brick road, the road of yellow brick in The Wizard of Oz
In music
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, an album by Elton John
    • "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (song), a song from the album
  • Yellow Brick Road (album), an album by Jerrod Niemann
  • "Yellow Brick Road", a song from the album The Hunters Lullaby by Raine Maida
  • "Yellow Brick Road", a song from the album Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart
  • "Yellow Brick Road", a song from Encore (Eminem album)
  • "Yellow Brick Road", a song from the album Down the Way by Angus & Julia Stone
  • "The Yellow Brick Road Song", a song by Iyeoka
In film
  • YellowBrickRoad, a 2010 horror film
  • Yellow Brick Road, a 2016 animated musical film
Other
  • As "Oz" is also a nickname for Australia, phrases like "down the yellow brick road" are sometimes used to mean "in Australia"
  • Yellow Brick Road, a long stoopway in Lechuguilla Cave
  • Walking Together On The Yellow Brick Road, an official audio drama for the anime series The Big O, written by Chiaki J. Konaka

Usage examples of "yellow brick road".

But she decided to head toward Kiamo Ko by following the Yellow Brick Road.

Hamilton sang and started skipping down an imagined Yellow Brick Road.

Blaine and a couple cronies, and that's Agent Smithee with them, and Agent Smithee ushers them into the narthex and down the yellow brick road to the waiting helicopter.

And if Pete saw a yellow thread, perhaps Duddits saw something like a broad yellow stripe, perhaps even Dorothy's yellow brick road.

Had they taken the tram to the end of the line young Kenneth would actually have seen the Emerald City, pretty much as Dorothy, Toto, and company had approached it in 1939 on a yellow brick road that was partly on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soundstage and partly in the box of tricks of a process cinematographer.

He didn't tell the truth, which was that Mother didn't set out at once on the Yellow Brick Road.

I picked up Lucy's Nikes and thought of the locker room at Quantico, of her being muddy from head to toe and bleeding and burned from running the Yellow Brick Road.

But me, I don't intend to be no Dorothy going down no Yellow Brick Road.

There was no 1-70 in Oz, but there was a yellow brick road which served much the same purpose, and there were witches, both good and bad.