English / idiom
Ivory Tower
MEANING IN ENGLISH
A secluded, privileged state of existence detached from practical realities and ordinary struggles.
In context
01
The meteorologists refused to stay in their ivory tower and instead visited flood-prone villages directly.
02
You cannot understand how brutal winter frost is for street vendors from an ivory tower.
Synonyms
cloistered existence,detached bubble,sheltered isolation
Antonyms
grassroots reality,front lines,practical trenches
Collocations
live in an ivory tower,step out of the ivory tower,ivory tower theorist