# tulip mania

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/tulip-mania
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

Any asset bubble (such as a stock bubble), especially when the irony of human folly that it illustrates is being emphasized.

## 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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