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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Man in the Moon (The). Some say it is a man leaning on a fork, on which he is carrying a bundle of sticks picked up on a Sunday. The origin of this fable is from Num. xv. 32-36. Some add a dog also; thus the prologue in Midsummer Night's Dream says, "This man with lantern, dog, and bush of thorns presenteth moonshine;" Chaucer says "he stole the bush" (Test. of cresseid). Another tradition says that the man is Cain, with his dog and thorn-bush; the thorn-bush being emblimantical of the thorns and briars of the fall, and the dog being the "foul fiend." Some poets make out the "man" to be Endymion, taken to the moon by Diana. Man in the moon. The nameless person at one time employed in elections to negotiate bribes. Thus the rumour was set flying among the electors that "the Man in the Moon had arrived." I know no more about it than the man in the moon. I know nothing at all about the matter. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Other cultures perceive the silhouette of a woman, a hare, or a buffalo in the full moon.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MAN IN THE MOON |
| Specialty definitions using "MAN IN THE MOON": Old Man of the Moon. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon! (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Bruno Frank; Victor Hugo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Man in the Moon (1960) The Man in the Moon (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Morty [Marty?] Gross using Western Electric headset to listen in on Man in the Moon stories, Ritz Apartments, Newark, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
man in the moon | 639 |
man in the moon movie | 23 |
the effect of gamma ray on man in the moon marigolds | 12 |
first man in the moon | 9 |
the effects of gamma ray on man in the moon marigolds | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "MAN IN THE MOON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 桂" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かつらおと". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anmay inay ethay oonmay mujer de la luna. (various references) aydede, ayın suratı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-m-n-n-n-o-o-t" | |
-3 letters: anthemion, monoamine. | |
-4 letters: ammonite, immanent, nominate, noontime. | |
-5 letters: amniote, amotion, emotion, enation, hematin, manihot, mannite, mention, momenta, momento, montane, nonhome, nonmeat. | |
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