"pie-in-the-sky" meaning in English

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        "Lacking reality and serviceability."
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        "(idiomatic) Lacking reality and serviceability."
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          "roman": "e ni kaita mochi no",
          "sense": "lacking reality",
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          "text": "If his [Donald Trump's] detailing was productive, it was somewhat undermined by a final, typical Trumpian flourish of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.",
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          "ref": "2019 December 4, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Williams or Nationalisation?”, in Rail, page 3",
          "text": "In other words, the usual mix of sound thinking and pie-in-the-sky electioneering promises which convince no one.",
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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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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "sense": "of a dream unlikely to ever come true",
          "word": "utopique"
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      "roman": "e ni kaita mochi no",
      "sense": "lacking reality",
      "word": "絵に描いた餅の"
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      "sense": "of a dream unlikely to ever come true",
      "word": "utopique"
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      "sense": "of a dream unlikely to ever come true",
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