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Meanings of pipe dream in English

Russian
несбыточная мечта

Illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story.

Related terms
несбыточная мечта
Portuguese
sonho
Catalan
somni
Spanish
sueño del opio

A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)

sonho
Synonyms
Examples for "castle in the sky"
Examples for "castle in the sky"
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Big Beginnings Building these castles in the sky hasn't been easy.
Wired
2
Castle In The Sky Reading this on mobile?
The Guardian
3
Do not get misled by people making false promises, people who are building castles in the sky, without having any note of reality.
Radio NZ
1
He saw himself buried under the ruins of his castles in Spain.
Within an Inch of His Life
2
Yet I dream my dreams, and attend to my castles in Spain.
Prue and I
3
Immediately, as his habit was, Columbus began to build castles in Spain.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume...
4
He was not the first man who built castles in Spain.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era / A Supplementa...
5
Such were my castles in Spain; who has not built such?
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...

A plan, desire or idea that is impossible or very unlikely to be realized.

Usage of pipe dream in English
1
Is a sustainable work place within Ireland achievable or a pipe dream?
The Irish Times
2
Just a pipe dream that ain't got no chance of comin' true.
God don't like ugly
3
From what we saw last year, that too is a pipe dream.
Radio NZ
4
South Africa cannot wait for December -that is a pipe dream.
The South African
5
So let's not spend our energy budget on a foreign pipe dream.
The South African
6
It was a pipe dream to... keep me in line, I guess.
Book Three: The Final Exodus
7
His life was like a pipe dream, not like an ordinary mortal's.
The Satyricon — Complete
8
Mr Sanders' plan is the dictionary definition of a pipe dream.
News.com.au
9
Labour getting a majority was a mere pipe dream in 2020.
News.com.au
10
We've heard this sort of thing before, but apparently it's no pipe dream.
Wired
11
One more pipe dream, and this is really reaching for it.
Man on the run
12
The outcome of these talks will reveal if this is another pipe dream.
Independent.ie
13
In the city of Detroit, federal loans were a pipe dream.
The Irish Times
14
As of now, five percent mortality looks like a pipe dream.
Wired
15
It was a pipe dream illustrated with charts and abstract ratios.
Obama's wars
16
Universal healthcare, like in the D.R., is still a pipe dream.
Ebony
Translations for pipe dream
Portuguese
sonho