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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)
pipe-dreamed or pipe-dreamt, pipe-dreaming.
- to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
pipe dream
noun
- a fanciful or impossible plan or hope
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pipe dream1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pipe dream1
alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe
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Idioms and Phrases
A fantastic notion or vain hope, as in I'd love to have one home in the mountains and another at the seashore, but that's just a pipe dream . Alluding to the fantasies induced by smoking an opium pipe, this term has been used more loosely since the late 1800s.Advertisement
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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