cloud-cuckoo-land

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Somehow he managed the trick of living in scientific reality half of the time and in fundamentalist cloud-cuckoo-land the other half of the time.

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  1. an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.

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  1. an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

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  • Somehow he managed the trick of living in scientific reality half of the time and in fundamentalist cloud-cuckoo-land the other half of the time. —  The Secular Outpost
  • In recent years the national Democrat party hasn't merely moved farther and farther left, it's gone farther and farther into cloud-cuckoo-land, with top party members uttering insanities such as those that have become the hallmarks of Howard Dean's frenzied rhetoric.
  • That this shallow man advocates cloud-cuckoo-land neolib reforms is not surprising. —  European Tribune
  • We are living in cloud-cuckoo-land. —  Newbury News Today | News
  • Thus, if the Tiger chief is toying with the idea of duping India once again into supporting his macabre cause, he is living in cloud-cuckoo-land. —  Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)
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