See full version: Origin of the phrase pipe dream
Yet another reference in Chicago, in September of 1895, demonstrates the true origin of phrase in terms of meaning, namely, as a reference to the dreams experienced when smoking opium. This September of 1895 reference is from the Fort Wayne Gazette:
This phrase first popped up in the 19th century, with the earliest known documented case coming from Chicago, Illinois; specifically, coming from the December of 1890 issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune, in this case referring to aerial navigation: “It has been regarded as a pipe-dream for a good many years.”
Today I found out the origin of the phrase “pipe dream”, meaning “a fantastic hope or plan that is generally regarded as being nearly impossible to achieve.”
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It sounds like a pipe dream that hes selling people, i think its basically overpromising, which is typical of Elon Musk.
The idea that lenders are not going to pass this along to the consumer is a pipe dream, this is essentially an additional tax levied on the merchandise that will be passed on to the consumer. It is Fannie and Freddie reaching into the borrower's pockets.
The difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can get done. we should not be looking to other countries' mistakes. here
If the U.S. still dreams a pipe dream of gaining everything through sanctions, we are left with two options, either to leave it enjoying the dream to its heart's content or to wake it up from the dream, we are ready for both dialogue and standoff.
The difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done, at least Bernie is being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this -- and that taxes are going to go up. [links]
Opiates were widely used by the English literati in the 18th and 19th centuries. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the best known users, and it would be difficult to claim that the imagery in surreal works like Kubla Khan owed nothing to opium. Lewis Carroll, although not known to be an opium user himself, makes clear allusions to drug use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has his hero Sherlock Holmes visit an opium den - although that was for research rather than consumption.
Look at the sea, and tell me if, in your wildest pipe-dream, you ever saw anything lovelier.
In his 1896 play, "Artie - A Story of the Streets and Town", the American columnist and playwright George Ade penned this line: here
Opiates were widely used by the English literati in the 18th and 19th centuries. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the best known users, and it would be difficult to claim that the imagery in surreal works like Kubla Khan owed nothing to opium. Lewis Carroll, although not known to be an opium user himself, makes clear allusions to drug use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has his hero Sherlock Holmes visit an opium den - although that was for research rather than consumption.
Look at the sea, and tell me if, in your wildest pipe-dream, you ever saw anything lovelier.
In his 1896 play, "Artie - A Story of the Streets and Town", the American columnist and playwright George Ade penned this line: here