"build castles in the air" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [Englisch]

Audio: En-au-build castles in the air.ogg Forms: build castles in the sky [variant], build castles in Spain [variant]
  1. realitätsferne Ideen, Pläne, Wünsche haben; realitätsferne Pläne machen; sich utopischen Hoffnungen, Vorstellungen hingeben (wortwörtlich: „Burgen/Schlösser in der/die Luft bauen“)
    Sense id: de-build_castles_in_the_air-en-phrase-l-~HTYNN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chase rainbows Translations (realitätsferne Ideen, Pläne, Wünsche haben; realitätsferne Pläne machen): Luftschlösser bauen (Deutsch), Schlösser in die Luft bauen (Deutsch)
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