person from Porlock

Meaning

Noun

One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.

Origin

In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.

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