cloud cuckoo land
Impossible utopia's address
Cloud cuckoo land is an imaginary place of fantasy and unrealistic expectations—a state of absurd optimism or willful delusion about how things actually work.
Someone living in cloud cuckoo land ignores practical realities: If you think this plan will succeed without funding, you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
The phrase comes from Aristophanes' comedy *The Birds*, where birds build a utopian city in the sky.
Also *cloudcuckooland* or *cloud-cuckoo-land*.
- dreamlandSleep state with visions
- dream worldImaginary mental realm
- unrealisticLacking basis in reality
- make-believeImaginative play or fantasy
- imaginaryExisting only in thought
wishful thinking · Neverland · fairy tale · utopia · Oz · illusion · Shangri-La · Eden · pie in the sky · pie in the sky thinking · Camelot · pipe dream · Arcadia · daydream · flights of fancy · escapism · El Dorado · Brigadoon
cloud cuckoo landreality
What actually exists
terra firma · harsh reality · ground level · down to earth · solid ground
cloud cuckoo landpragmatism
Practical problem-solving philosophy
realism · common sense · level-headedness · feet on the ground · practicality
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