curiouser and curiouser
Ever more bizarre
Curiouser and curiouser expresses growing astonishment as a situation becomes increasingly strange or puzzling.
The phrase comes from Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, where Alice uses the ungrammatical comparative as things grow more bizarre.
It signals that events are compounding in oddness: The more I looked into it, curiouser and curiouser.
- wonderlandMagical place of marvels
- strangeUnusual or unfamiliar
- peculiarStrangely unusual
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
- rabbitLong-eared lagomorph
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curiouser and curiouserbusiness as usual
Continuation of normal routine
same old same old · par for the course · normalizing · mundane · unremarkable
curiouser and curiouserdiminishing returns
Reduced benefit from additional effort
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