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pipe dream
1noun
any fantastic notion, hope, or story.
Her plans for a movie career are just a pipe dream.
pipe-dream
2[pahyp-dreem]
verb (used without object)
to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
pipe dream
noun
a fanciful or impossible plan or hope
Word History and Origins
Origin of pipe dream1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pipe dream1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Yeah, I know, it’s mostly a pipe dream, but there are those who are trying to keep that dream alive.
Even on good days, lunch breaks were often a pipe dream.
Defeated multiple times in the past, this bill would carve out an exception for small modular reactors, or SMRs, the current pipe dream of nuclear advocates.
However, the high bar for constitutional amendments makes Ogles' proposal a pipe dream - although it got people talking.
But creating conditions in which such examples can flourish may seems like a pipe dream as America risks descending into autocracy, where no dialogue is possible or permitted.
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