magic carpet
Noun
Meaning
(fiction) A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.
Synonym: flying carpet
(skiing) A conveyor belt to transport skiers/snowboarders.
Synonym: carpet lift
Coordinate terms: T-bar, chairlift, ski lift, rope-tow
Synonyms
Examples
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.