English Dictionary

pie-in-the-sky

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpaɪ n̩ ðə ˈskaɪ/

形容詞

慣用表現 比較不可

(idiomatic) Lacking reality and serviceability. / (idiomatic) Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable.

日本語の意味

実現不可能で、実用性がなく、非現実的な理想や夢を指す表現 / 空中楼閣のような、手の届かない理想や計画を示す

The committee dismissed his pie-in-the-sky plan as impractical.

委員会は彼の非現実的な計画を実行不可能だとして却下した。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) Lacking reality and serviceability.

a pie-in-the-sky patent

意味（2）

(idiomatic) Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable.

If his [Donald Trump's] detailing was productive, it was somewhat undermined by a final, typical Trumpian flourish of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.