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Pipe dream   /paɪp drim/   Listen
Pipe dream

noun
1.
A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe).  Synonym: dream.





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"Pipe dream" Quotes from Famous Books



... This is no pipe dream or a simple newspaper yarn, but the plain truth. Some of the medicos from the United States have given up earnings of such big figures they should only be mentioned kneeling. Where they gathered in half a million at home yearly, they are accepting ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces


Words linked to "Pipe dream" :   phantasy, fantasy, dream


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