never-never landnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌnev.əˈnev.ə ˌlænd/us/ˌnev.ɚˈnev.ɚ ˌlænd/an imaginary place where everything is pleasant or perfect in a way that is impossible to achieve in real life:
If he thinks we can get this done by next week, he's living in never-never land.
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Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- false hopes
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- idealist
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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Pleasant and make-believe places