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