a pipe dream
a pipe dream
Fig. a wish or an idea that is impossible to achieve or carry out. (From the dreams or visions induced by the smoking of an opium pipe.)
Going to the West Indies is a pipe dream. We'll never have enough money.
Your hopes of winning a lot of money are just a silly pipe dream.
热门单词
- abstract sth from sth
- accredit
- address comments or remarks to so
- a fix
- a hidden agenda
- A liar is not believed (even) when he tells the truth.
- (all) balled up
- (all) over again
- (all) skin and bones
- all the more reason for doing sth
- All things will pass.
- all thumbs
- all vine and no taters
- a loose translation
- a lucky streak
- ambulance
- a mile a minute
- an about-face (on so or sth)
- an act of faith
- And you?
- an itching palm
