Idiom idiom
tulip mania
Meaning
Any asset bubble (such as a stock bubble), especially when the irony of human folly that it illustrates is being emphasized.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The recent rise in tech stocks looks like another tulip mania.”
“Investors ignored all warnings about the high prices, leading many to compare the market crash to the original tulip mania.”
“History often repeats itself, as seen when the speculative frenzy surrounding digital assets mirrored the irrational exuberance and eventual collapse of the seventeenth-century tulip mania.”
Origin
From tulip + mania.
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Last updated August 10, 2026