English / idiom
Castle in the Sky
MEANING IN ENGLISH
A daydream, hope, or plan that is completely unrealistic, impractical, and unattainable.
In context
01
Hoping for lasting peace without addressing the underlying injustice is just building a castle in the sky.
02
Their utopian reconciliation roadmap was dismissed by realistic negotiators as an unworkable castle in the sky.
Synonyms
pipe dream,pie in the sky,utopian fantasy
Antonyms
realistic plan,practical scheme,grounded reality
Collocations
build a castle in the sky,nothing but a castle in the sky,dismiss as a castle in the sky