pie-in-the-sky
adj/ˈpaɪ n̩ ðə ˈskaɪ/US
Etymology
From the noun pie in the sky.
Definitions
Lacking reality and serviceability.
- a pie-in-the-sky patent
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pie-in-the-sky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA