See pie-in-the-sky in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019 December 4, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Williams or Nationalisation?”, in Rail, page 3:",
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"ref": "2024 April 18, Callum Jones, quoting Michael Nathanson, “Netflix profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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"(idiomatic) Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable."
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