fantasmus

Updated: July 13, 2025

I mean to say here we've had Mittel-Europa, that is, the Mittel-Europa idea, as a sort of fantasmus in front of Teutonism ever since Koniggratz." The Authority looked all round us in that searching way he had. We all tried to look like men seeing a fantasmus and disgusted at it. "So you see," he went on, "Mittel-Europa is done with." "I suppose it is," I said.

Stephen Leacock - Frenzied Fiction