dream : Idioms & Phrases
american dream
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noun the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did
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dream up
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verb devise or invent
think up; think of; concoct; hatch.
- He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
- no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software
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pipe dream
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noun a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
dream.
- I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
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To dream away , out , through
- etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?"
Webster 1913
wet dream
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noun an erotic dream (usually at night) accompanied by the (nocturnal) emission of semen
