colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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Etymology

Composed by Noam Chomsky in his work Syntactic Structures (1957).

Phrase

colorless green ideas sleep furiously

  1. (linguistics) An example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical.

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