castles in the air
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Extravagant hopes and plans that will never be carried out: “I told him he should stop building castles in the air and train for a sensible profession.”
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Words nearby castles in the air
castle in the air, castle nut, Castle Peak, Castlereagh, Castle Shannon, castles in the air, Castle walk, cast loose, Castner, Castner process, castoff
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How to use castles in the air in a sentence
But we had our unpractical evenings, also, when we built castles-in-the-air, and chose the furniture for them.
To Tell You the Truth|Leonard Merrick
Other Idioms and Phrases with castles in the air
castles in the air
Also, castles in Spain. Dreams about future success, as in Musing about the bestseller list, she was apt to build castles in the air. The first term dates from the late 1500s. The variant, castles in Spain (or chateaux en Espagne), was recorded in the Roman de la Rose in the 13th century and translated into English about 1365.
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