Idiom
in your dreams
Meaning
Used to express the speaker's skepticism about another's preceding statement about a desired or assumed state of affairs.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You think I will lend you my car? In your dreams.”
“He told me he would win the lottery tomorrow, but I told him he was living in his dreams.”
“When the rival candidate suggested he would easily secure the majority of the vote, the opposition leader simply laughed and replied that such a victory existed only in his dreams.”
Examples
simple
“You think I will lend you my car? In your dreams.”
contextual
“He told me he would win the lottery tomorrow, but I told him he was living in his dreams.”
complex
“When the rival candidate suggested he would easily secure the majority of the vote, the opposition leader simply laughed and replied that such a victory existed only in his dreams.”
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