never-never land
Example Sentences
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"It laid bare how incompatible it was to have intelligence services operating in a secret constitutional never-never land and allowed them to become publicly accountable."
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2023
“This means conversations will be more of a never-never land than they already are,” Cohen said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2018
“But until the bulldozers arrive and the leases are terminated and farmers start to go away, it’s not done. It will be in that never-never land of planning.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2017
“And they’re in never-never land because they don’t know what’s going to happen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2016
Immediately, the breeze took them straight out, as though Peter Pan had donned them to fly across our yard toward never-never land across the Bay.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
