diff --git a/dask_expr/_core.py b/dask_expr/_core.py
index ed9b8c41f..b8db367d6 100644
--- a/dask_expr/_core.py
+++ b/dask_expr/_core.py
@@ -507,8 +507,6 @@ def __getattr__(self, key):
             if key in _parameters:
                 idx = _parameters.index(key)
                 return self.operands[idx]
-            if is_dataframe_like(self._meta) and key in self._meta.columns:
-                return self[key]
 
             link = "https://github.com/dask-contrib/dask-expr/blob/main/README.md#api-coverage"
             raise AttributeError(
diff --git a/dask_expr/tests/a.zip b/dask_expr/tests/a.zip
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..11b96a7f5
Binary files /dev/null and b/dask_expr/tests/a.zip differ
diff --git a/dask_expr/tests/test_meta.py b/dask_expr/tests/test_meta.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ef2d13e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dask_expr/tests/test_meta.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import zipfile
+
+import dask.dataframe as dd
+import fsspec
+from fsspec.archive import AbstractArchiveFileSystem
+
+
+class ZipFileSystem(AbstractArchiveFileSystem):
+    protocol = "tzip"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        fo="",
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(self, **kwargs)
+        fo = fsspec.open(fo, mode="rb")
+        self.of = fo
+        self.fo = fo.__enter__()
+        self.zip = zipfile.ZipFile(self.fo, mode="r")
+        self.dir_cache = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _strip_protocol(cls, path):
+        return super()._strip_protocol(path).lstrip("/")
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        if hasattr(self, "zip"):
+            self.close()
+            del self.zip
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.zip.close()
+
+    def _open(
+        self,
+        path,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        path = self._strip_protocol(path)
+        out = self.zip.open(path, "r")
+        return out
+
+
+fsspec.register_implementation("tzip", ZipFileSystem)
+with fsspec.open("tzip://a.csv", fo="a.zip") as f:
+    print(f.read(1))
+df = dd.read_csv("tzip://a.csv", storage_options={"fo": "a.zip"})
+print(df.head())