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词汇 pie-in-the-sky
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释义

pie in the sky


idiom
something that you hope will happen but is very unlikely to happen: 渺茫的希望;不大可能实现的计划
Their plans to set up their own business are just pie in the sky.他们创办自己公司的计划只不过是空想罢了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unreal things and unreality
alternate reality
alternative reality
birther
cloud cuckoo land
delusion
fairyland
fallacy
false hopes
falsity
fantasy
illusion
la-la land
make believephrase
never-never land
non-fact
phantasmagorical
phantom
pie
unreality
untruth

pie in the sky | American Dictionary


pie in the sky


idiom
something good that is unlikely to happen:
I wanted to be a major league baseball player, but I knew it was probably pie in the sky.

Examples of pie in the sky


pie in the sky
Here, then, is your pieinthesky and opium of the people.
But my nice planetary system looks suspiciously tidy, and may just turn out to be 'pieinthesky'.
We have been hypnotised for too long by gazing at pieinthesky.
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Good human relations in industry are not pieinthesky.
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Has he any clear ideas about this or is it just a vague, ambiguous, equivocal piece of pieinthesky?
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The other day she did not want to throw the small shopkeepers to the wolves for pieinthesky.
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It is pure pieinthesky whether we are in hail of what we are aiming at.
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Is not this all pieinthesky?
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It is pieinthesky, and poison pie at that.
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I do not think that it is pieinthesky.
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We finish with pieinthesky tomorrow but very rarely a tax concession for tonight.
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That, he said, was not "pieinthesky" but something which would be carried out.
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It is much better to be realistic than to offer pieinthesky.
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In other words, it was "pieinthesky".
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To boast about national health service expenditure three years ahead is complete pieinthesky.
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