never-never land
Example Sentences
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“The Punch Bowl,” made in late 1944, when Germany was on its knees, portrayed a “good old German never-never land of unspoiled cobblestone streets.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
"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
“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
“We’re in this never-never land on Capitol Hill,” Blumenauer said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2014
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
