pipe dream

Example Sentences

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This victim was said to have been sold a "pipe dream" of how she could make "lots of money" from selling her body.

From BBC

Against their great rivals in Indore, they had spells where they competed - again, something that was nothing more than a pipe dream at the beginning of the year.

From BBC

These would be excellent candidates for a momentum fund, or a venture fund trying to sort spicy growers from pipe dreams.

From Barron's

But when Mr. Netanyahu then rejected that, insisting on a deal to return all the hostages at once and disarm Hamas, it was dismissed as a pipe dream—including by the Israeli defense establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal

"If this is acceptable now, then it's not surprising that unionists will never want to be part of the pipe dream that is a united Ireland."

From BBC