impossible dream
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimpossibleanddream
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impossible
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/us/ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
If an action or event is impossible, it cannot happen or ...
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dream
noun[C]
uk/driːm/us/driːm/
a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
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(Definition ofimpossibleanddreamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is no reason to think that attempting to live animpossibledreamwill produce more good than any other course of action.
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It would be as reductive to interpret this attitude as the expression of animpossibledream.
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It requires a change of attitude, but it is not animpossibledream.
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There are men there who have achieved what only a very few years ago seemed animpossibledream.
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However, that was then widely seen as animpossibledream.
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The cultural revolution that is required in the spreading of scientific literacy is not animpossibledream.
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Theimpossibledreamhas become the commonplace reality as day follows day.
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Fifteen years ago, early in 1989, this would have looked like animpossibledream, but it has come true: what a wonderful moment.
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As a result, home ownership has become animpossibledreamfor many and an impossible nightmare for many more.
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Given the potency of modern drugs, wherein lies their efficacy, that is animpossibledream.
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Our discounts will bring home ownership within the reach of many for whom it would otherwise remain animpossibledream.
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It fell to 20th-century engineers, however, to turn thatimpossibledreaminto reality, and shatter for ever any imagined boundaries to human endeavour.
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It may be comforting to dream theimpossibledream, but we have to live in a world of reality.
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It is that desperation which has made home ownership animpossibledreamfor some and an impossible nightmare for many more.
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The idea of living in splendid isolation is animpossibledream.
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Having one's own bathroom is animpossibledreamto ordinary folks like me.
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The bottom line is that animpossibledreamis being created.
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The dream of a free market economy that would give everyone the best of all possible worlds is animpossibledream.
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Inch by inch, we move forward and theimpossibledreamof a few years ago moves closer to becoming a practical reality.
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