never-never land

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noun

an unreal, imaginary, or ideal state, condition, place, etc.
any remote, isolated, barren, or sparsely settled region.

Origin of never-never land

1875–85 for def. 2; reduplication of never

Also called neverland, never-never.

Words Nearby never-never land

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How to use never-never land in a sentence

It is not a story of a never-never land where fantastic happenings take place daily.
The Year When Stardust Fell | Raymond F. Jones
This was an other-world desert, one spawned in the fires of hell—a never-never land of scalding heat and unbelievable cold.
First on the Moon | Jeff Sutton
They are the "Never-Never-Land" in which we shall ever be growing, but never grow up.
Your National Parks | Enos A. Mills
Go, go away, back to the never-never land, stay there and be safe.
The Brain | Alexander Blade
But after all those scuffles on the Strand do seem part of the strange customs of a fusty-dusty never-never land.
Nonsenseorship | G. G. Putnam and Others

Cultural definitions for Never-Never Land

Never-Never Land

Originally called Neverland, the home of the title character in the story Peter Pan; a place where children never grow up.

Other Idioms and Phrases with never-never land

never-never land

A fantasy land, an imaginary place, as in I don't know what's gotten into Marge—she's way off in never-never land. This expression gained currency when James Barrie used it in Peter Pan (1904) for the place where Peter and the Lost Boys live. However, in the second half of the 1800s Australians already were using it for vast unsettled areas of their continent (the outback), and there the term became popular through Mrs. Aeneas Gunn's We of the Never Never (1908). In Australia it still refers to northwest Queensland or northern Australia in general. Elsewhere it simply signifies a fantasy or daydream.

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