castles in the air
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They're giddy at having two women pledge to make their sundry castles in the air become real.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2021
“You can be building castles in the air that have no reference to reality,” Mr. Kesler added.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2017
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2017
Vasari wrote that Piero, who was strange, "knew no pleasure save that of going off by himself with his thoughts, letting his fancy roam and building castles in the air."
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2015
In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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