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{ "etymology_text": "From Don Quixote.", "forms": [ { "form": "impossible dreams", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "impossible dream (plural impossible dreams)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1996, Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, Evita", "text": "Tell me before I seek worthier pastures / And thereby restore self-esteem / How can you be so short-sighted / To look never further than this week or next week / To have no impossible dream?", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A belief or goal which is unattainable despite the pursuer's high hopes." ], "id": "en-impossible_dream-en-noun-eLhItN7d", "links": [ [ "belief", "belief" ], [ "goal", "goal" ], [ "unattainable", "unattainable" ], [ "high hopes", "high hopes" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(figuratively) A belief or goal which is unattainable despite the pursuer's high hopes." ], "tags": [ "figuratively" ] } ], "word": "impossible dream" }
{ "etymology_text": "From Don Quixote.", "forms": [ { "form": "impossible dreams", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "impossible dream (plural impossible dreams)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1996, Alan Parker, Oliver Stone, Evita", "text": "Tell me before I seek worthier pastures / And thereby restore self-esteem / How can you be so short-sighted / To look never further than this week or next week / To have no impossible dream?", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A belief or goal which is unattainable despite the pursuer's high hopes." ], "links": [ [ "belief", "belief" ], [ "goal", "goal" ], [ "unattainable", "unattainable" ], [ "high hopes", "high hopes" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(figuratively) A belief or goal which is unattainable despite the pursuer's high hopes." ], "tags": [ "figuratively" ] } ], "word": "impossible dream" }
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