SORCERER'S APPRENTICE


Meaning of SORCERER'S APPRENTICE in English

ˌSorcerer's Apˈprentice, the BrE AmE

a piece of music by the French ↑ composer Paul Dukas (1865–1935), based on a poem by ↑ Goethe about a boy who works for a sorcerer and lazily tries to do his work using magic, but everything goes wrong

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.