Al‧ice in Won‧der‧land /ˌæləs ɪn ˈwʌndəlænd, ˌælɪs ɪn ˈwʌndəlænd $ -dər-/ (also ˌAlice’s Adˌventures in ˈWonderland)
a book by Lewis Carroll about a girl called Alice who has many strange adventures. People sometimes describe something as being ‘Alice-in-Wonderland’, when they mean it is the opposite of what is normal or what you expect:
The book is a good introduction to the strange, Alice-in-Wonderland world of theoretical physics.

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