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cloud-cuckoo-land

cloud-cuckoo-land \cloud-cuckoo-land\ n. an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.

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cloud-cuckoo-land

n. An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.

WordNet
cloud-cuckoo-land

n. an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

Usage examples of "cloud-cuckoo-land".

I'm not educated in the way George is, I don't float around in cloud-cuckoo-land or wander among the groves of academe.

In the cloud-cuckoo-land of Videssian honorifics, spatharios was the vaguest, but few imperials would poke fun at their own pretensions.