| 词汇 | castles-in-the-air |
| 释义 | castles in the airidiom plans that have very little chance of happening空中楼阁;空想，几乎不可能实现的计划 Impossible and improbable apt aptness be out of the questionidiom be pissing in the windidiom beggar flimsiness goodbye goodbye to somethingidiom hopeless case impenetrably implausibility nail nohow not a chance not have a snowball's chance in hellidiom one in a millionidiom pig piss snowball unicorn Examples of castles in the aircastles in the air Or were these poetic distillations just castlesintheair? It has been said that no garrisons are so safe from attack as the defenders of castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless they take action now, they will be building castlesintheair, not hospitals on the ground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They seemed to me more like castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know, with regard to this £300,000, that a large number of people are building all sorts of castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must, therefore, recognise that, until an alternative diversion route can be found—and this will not be easy—we are building castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it a sound method of taxation to levy taxes on castlesintheair? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are trying to build castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But we cannot sit by and build castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Beyond that, we are given castlesintheair, when people want projects on the ground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do want to adopt a cost-effective, practical approach here, not build castlesintheair. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The targets we are setting to reduce the extent of pollution must be binding, otherwise we risk the decisions becoming mere castlesintheair. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These things are all castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there any prospect of any oil flowing, before we build castlesintheair? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All too often, they could be castlesintheair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of castles in the air These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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