Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never" [syn: hire-purchase]
the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country
Usage examples of "never-never".
A press conference was held and he was catapulted into the never-never land of the UFO contactees, the center of one of the biggest UFO stories of 1966.
Sheckley uses the old Sense-of-Wonder philosophy with all the traditional gimmicks attached, but in his peculiar never-never land the machines live a life of their own, and the result comes actually much closer to wild fantasy than the thundering space ship armadas of E.
It was beautifully staged, with plenty of action, but like the sitcoms, laid in one of those never-never historical settings.
The old ones have slouched into their ascetical lodgings where they can be found snoring in that never-never land of Buddhist prenirvana, while the younger ones are still up doing whatever it is young boys do late at night, when their lives have suddenly been inundatedninety years after the fact with electric light.
Down here in the Barrens that didn't get him in much trouble, but the Barrens weren't Never-Never Land and they couldn't be the Wild Boys for more than a few hours at a stretch (the idea of a Wild Boy with an aspirator in his back pocket made Eddie smile).
They may not be able to discourse on the process of deindustrialization, but they know that people who smugly order them to “get a job” are living in never-never land and imagining a world of work that hasn’t existed in decades.
What the golem said as he wrenched the prickly crown off was not comprehensible, since it was in plant language, but a bleeding heart vine blushed, a trumpet lily sounded a retreat, an artillery plant fired off a salute, and a never-never plant wilted.
You'll like it here, I promise, all the boys and girls I meet like it here because it's like Pleasure Island in Pinocchio and Never-Never Land in Peter Pan.
One morning, however, he had stirred sluggishly out of slumber and, in the stream of consciousness that accompanied the never-never land of half-sleep, he felt what a pity it was that Trevize had never been recruited.