Dead Sea fruit

American  

noun

1. something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.

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Etymology

Origin of Dead Sea fruit

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

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Dead Sea fruit

The penalties imposed upon her were Dead Sea fruit.

From Time Magazine Archive

What did it matter in this Vale of Content that beyond the outer mountains men were sweating and struggling for Dead Sea fruit.

From Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

Have you learned the secret of perpetual youth that you deliberately fritter away its golden moments in order to rush after the Dead Sea fruit of domination and power?

From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

All that had proved preeminently unsuccessful, a most poisonous harvest of Dead Sea fruit.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet

Here she was in Barcelona, and the fulfilled desire seemed likely to become already Dead Sea fruit.

From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward

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