pie-in-the-sky

adj
/ˈpaɪ n̩ ðə ˈskaɪ/US

Etymology

From the noun pie in the sky.

Definitions

  1. Lacking reality and serviceability.

    • a pie-in-the-sky patent
  2. Of a dream unlikely to ever come true

    Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable.

    • “Halving poverty in 15 years seems like the most pie-in-the-sky goal imaginable,” said Mark Malloch Brown, head of the U.N. Development Program. “But it’s really quite doable. And the people who can do it are right here.

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