Barmacide feast

Barmacide feast
Something that appears highly desirable, but proves to be imaginary, illusory and ultimately very disappointing.

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  • BARMACIDE FEAST —    an imaginary feast, so called from a story in the Arabian Nights of a hungry beggar invited by a Barmacide prince to a banquet, which proved a long succession of merely empty dishes, and which he enjoyed with such seeming gusto and such good… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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