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
“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
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Bay Area is a culinary never-never land, a place where aspiring apiarists hire beekeeping coaches, and even 7-year-olds can discuss the virtues of Himalayan salt.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 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
