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pipe dream
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pipe dream
n.
A fantastic notion or vain hope.
[From the fantasies induced by smoking a pipe of opium.]
pipe dream
n
a fanciful or impossible plan or hope
[alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe]
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Noun1.pipe dreampipe dream - a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
dream
fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
pipe dream
noun daydream, dream, notion, fantasy, delusion, vagary, reverie, chimera, castle in the air The plan is nothing more than a pipe dream.
Translations
pipe dream n → sogno impossibile
pipe dream n → sogno impossibile


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