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Walter Mitty

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Walter Mitty/wɔːltə(r)ˈmɪti/

▶noun a person who fantasizes about a life much more exciting and glamorous than their own.

– origin the fantasizing hero of James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939).

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