pipe-dreaming

"You forget that you've just been telling me that you don't intend to comply with the one hard-and-fast condition to such an arrangement as the one I've been pipe-dreaming about."

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

Just as nobody - outside of some pipe-dreaming Georgia Southern players and fans - could envision the Eagles turning back the Tide.

All Stories 2011

Unlike too many of his pipe-dreaming Zionist opponents on the Left, Jabotinsky was not delusional about what the Arabs 'true intentions were regarding the resurrection of the Jew of the Nations -- regardless of its size.

Right Truth 2009

She was always threatening to do that anyhow, once she had enough money saved, even if G-Mack figured it was just the empty posturing and pipe-dreaming that most of these whores went in for at some time or another.

The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

They range from the groundbreaking Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (Ricky Gervais’ irritating, pipe-dreaming David Brent wouldn’t exist without chat show flunky Alan) to the previously unavailable Paul and Pauline Calf’s Video Diaries (Coogan plays both of the trashy siblings, pictured) and the oddly sweet pest control comedy Saxondale.

Steve Coogan talks up his new DVD collection | EW.com 2009