in your dreams
Not gonna happen
A dismissive retort meaning "that will never happen" or "you're deluding yourself." Someone expresses a wish or expectation, and the response deflates it: You think she'll go out with you? In your dreams.
The phrase suggests the only place such a thing could occur is in fantasy.
Sometimes used self-deprecatingly: Me, retire early? In my dreams.
- unlikelyNot apt to happen
- implausibleUnlikely to be true
- impossibleIncapable of occurring
- fat chanceSarcastic denial of possibility
- as ifSuggesting something hypothetical
not gonna happen · you wish · fantasy · dreamscape · pie in the sky · reality check · mockery · disappointment · playful banter · nice try · yeah right · tongue-in-cheek · not a chance · when pigs fly · wishful thinking · hopefulness · sarcasm · dry humor
- dream phrasesnightmare
- refusalsno, decline, no thanks, refuse, nope
- sarcastic rejectionsas if, fat chance, yeah right, not likely, not happening
- disbeliefdisbelief, no way, incredulity, unbelievable, yeah right
- sleepsleep, sleeping, nap, doze, slumber
- stubbornnessstubbornness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, bullheadedness, mulishness
in your dreamsabsolutely
Completely, without exception
you got it · of course · definitely · sure thing · you bet
in your dreamscount on it
Expression of certainty
guaranteed · for sure · without a doubt · in reality · as we speak
in your dreamsabsolutely
Completely, without exception
definitely · for sure · you bet · without a doubt · consider it done
dream, your, dreaming, dreamer, daydream, dreams, daydreaming, dreamed, insomnia