attractive nuisance

1. 1.

   anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm

   “their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in”

   Broadernuisance

Questions about attractive nuisance

What does attractive nuisance mean?

attractive nuisance means "anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm".

Is attractive nuisance a common word?

attractive nuisance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.