person from Porlock
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.
Noun[edit]
person from Porlock (plural persons from Porlock or people from Porlock)
- (idiomatic) One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
- Synonym: man from Porlock