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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

Noun

a fanciful or impossible plan or hope [alluding to dreams produced by smoking an opium pipe]

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pipe dream

pipe dream - a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

fantasy, phantasy - imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"

pipe dream

noun daydream, dream, notion, fantasy, delusion, vagary, reverie, chimera, castle in the air

Translations

pipe dream n → sueño imposible

pipe dream n → chimère f, utopie f

pipe dream pipe n → Hirngespinst nt

pipe dream n → vana speranza

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