pipe dream

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

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.

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

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.

"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."