fantasyland

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“That, however, is in the fantasyland where comic-strip characters grow⟳ up.”

“If your dream⟳ depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble⟳. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build⟳ their dream⟳ on reality take⟳ a very different approach⟳ to dreams than do people who live⟳ in Fantasyland.”

“Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have⟳ become⟳ a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.”

“On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.”

“A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."”

“Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.”

“Now leave⟳ Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.”

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