English Explanatory Dictionary

sorcerer's apprentice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Person who experiments carelessly, without paying attention to the possible consequences of their experiments and without the ability to contain them should they spiral out of control.

Word forms

sorcerer's apprentice sorcerer's apprentices

Etymology

Calque of French apprenti-sorcier, itself a calque of German Zauberlehrling.

Related words

mad scientist play God
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