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noun
One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Synonyms: man from Porlock
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
