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Fanciful scheme for the Tube?
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pipe dream
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pipe Dream is the bi-weekly student newspaper of Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y. Printed as a tabloid until Spring 2012, Pipe Dream now prints as a broadsheet paper with full color front and back pages. Pipe Dream is one of the few student newspapers ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: dream ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870; the sort of improbable fantasy one has while smoking opium; from pipe (n.1) + dream (n.). Old English pipdream meant "piping."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A plan, desire, or idea that will not likely work; a near impossibility.