cloud cuckoo land
uk/ˌklaʊd ˈkʊk.uː.lænd/us/ˌklaʊd ˈkʊk.uː.lænd/UK disapprovinglive/be in cloud cuckoo land
to think that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how things really are:
When referees make contentious decisions players are going to be upset, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud cuckoo land.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- fairyland
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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