keep dreaming
That won't happen
Keep dreaming is a dismissive response to someone's hopes or plans, suggesting they're unrealistic or unlikely to happen.
The phrase drips with skepticism: You think she'll go out with you? Keep dreaming.
It can range from gentle teasing among friends to cutting dismissal of ambitions the speaker finds laughable.
- wishfulDriven by desire
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- pie in the skyUnrealistic hope or plan
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- aspireSeek to achieve
hope · illusion · unrealistic · impossible · sarcasm · dismissive · fat chance · when pigs fly · ambition · head in clouds · delusion · sleep · vision · stargazer · foolish · naïve · clouds · moonlight
- sarcastic rejectionsas if, fat chance, yeah right, not likely, not happening
dismissiveness vs encouragement
keep dreamingyou can do it
go for it · you've got this · follow your dreams · reach for the stars · never give up
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