Idiot's Delightとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Idiot's Delight (uncountable)

1. Any of various games of solitaire or patience.
   • 1910, The Cosmopolitan, Volume 50, p. 761,

     On the other hand, I know one of the biggest operators in New York who finds his recreation after a hard day’s fight with the market in solitaire—‘Idiot’s Delight’ is his especial game.

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 2, p. 28,

     They were fabulously well-to-do, and descended from Americans who had all but wrecked the planet with a form of Idiot’s Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.