person from Porlock

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important. idiomatic

词形变化

persons from Porlock plural people from Porlock plural

词源

In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.
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