Hi,
can anyone explain to me what does it mean. The context is: "That's no pie-in-the-sky fantasy for you"
Thanks,
Adam.
can anyone explain to me what does it mean. The context is: "That's no pie-in-the-sky fantasy for you"
Thanks,
Adam.
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When an idea, promise, or something good (here the fantasy, or your dream) is unlikely to happen, or to be reached, we can call it as a pie in the sky!
Cheers,
In French, it's a "château en Espagne"
This is a link to info about the term "pie in the sky" - there was a song circulated by an American socialist organization in the early 1900s that was a sarcastic response to the Salvation Army, a Christian organization that stressed that people who suffered on Earth would get their reward in Heaven. The line was "you'll have pie in the sky when you die."
(The anti-Christian sarcasm of the song is not still part of the general understanding of the phrase - now it usually means an unlikely, but much desired, future reward)
Does they mean same as 'pie in the sky': "something that you hope will happen but which is very unlikely to happen"