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pie in the sky

adjective as in unrealistic

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Labour has called the plan pie in the sky.

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Speed's comments feel like pie in the sky, yet China never had a world snooker champion until this year.

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"For ministers to say 'we expect them to do their duty, to do things properly' is just pie in the sky."

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I’m not in any way “pie in the sky” about these realities, but I also recognize and actually trust in a belief that sometimes good things happen in ways that feel predetermined and fateful.

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It may sound silly or pie in the sky, but Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, who started the committee, thinks lawmakers should be seriously pursuing how to increase happiness for Californians.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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