tulip mania
Any asset bubble, especially when the irony of human folly that it illustrates is…Any asset bubble (such as a stock bubble), especially when the irony of human folly that it illustrates is being emphasized.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, figuratively, idiomatic, uncountable)Any asset bubble (such as a stock bubble), especially when the irony of human folly that it illustrates is being emphasized.
It remains to be seen whether the current valuations in certain sectors will turn out to be a tulip mania.
Origin
From tulip + mania.From tulip + mania.
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Forms
plural: tulip manias| Singular | tulip mania |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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