winter blunderland

English

Noun

winter blunderland (plural winter blunderlands)

  1. (UK, humorous, derogatory) A disappointing winter wonderland Christmas fair
    • 2014 December 16, Julian Robinson, “‘Winter Blunderland’ designed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen shuts down just nine days before Christmas – leaving furious parents up to £100 out of pocket”, in Daily Mail‎[1]:
      see title
    • 2025 December 1, Isabelle Frasier, “Walking in a winter blunderland: the tradition of the rubbish British Christmas festival”, in The Daily Telegraph‎[2]:
      Queues for miles, outrageous prices and a melting ice sculpture: it wouldn’t be Christmas without another tale of a disastrous “winter blunderland”
    • 2017 July 12, George Allen, “'}Winter blunderland' organiser fined for putting up illegal adverts in Derbyshire”, in Derby Telegraph‎[3]:
      The event last year was dubbed a “winter blunderland” after visitors complained they had arrived at the Bakewell Showground to find a field caked in mud, with few stalls and no Santa Claus.
    • 2018 December 6, Kate Jackson, “Sick of winter blunderlands? Eight families rate the UK's best winter wonderlands”, in The Sun‎[4]:
      see title
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.