Cloud Cuckoo Land
Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4065
From Aristophanes, whose 414 BC comedy The Birds has two Athenians build a city in the clouds called Nephelokokkygia. English took it in the 1800s for any plan built at altitude on nothing.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.