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pipe dream

  • 1 pipe dream

    (an idea which can only be imagined, and which would be impossible to carry out: For most people a journey round the world is only a pipe dream.) prazne sanje

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  • 2 pipe-dream

    [páipdri:m]
    noun
    American slang prazen up, fantazija

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  • 3 pipe

    1. noun
    1) (a tube, usually made of metal, earthenware etc, through which water, gas etc can flow: a water pipe; a drainpipe.) cev
    2) (a small tube with a bowl at one end, in which tobacco is smoked: He smokes a pipe; ( also adjective) pipe tobacco.) pipa
    3) (a musical instrument consisting of a hollow wooden, metal etc tube through which the player blows or causes air to be blown in order to make a sound: He played a tune on a bamboo pipe; an organ pipe.) piščal(ka)
    2. verb
    1) (to convey gas, water etc by a pipe: Water is piped to the town from the reservoir.) speljati po ceveh
    2) (to play (music) on a pipe or pipes: He piped a tune.) piskati
    3) (to speak in a high voice, make a high-pitched sound: `Hallo,' the little girl piped.) piskati
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    - pipes
    - piping     3. adjective
    ((of a sound) high-pitched: a piping voice.) piskajoč
    - pipeline
    - piping hot
    * * *
    I [páip]
    noun
    (dovodna) cev; piščalka, frula; brlizganje, žvižganje (ptičje); music plural dude; anatomy sapnik, prebavni kanal; glas (pri petju); pipa za tobak; geology dimnik; mineralogy cev za zračenje v rudniku, rudna žila cilindraste oblike; botany votlo steblo, votel pecelj; economy vinski sod ali sod za olje (10ɜ galonov, ca 477 litrov); British English history obračun državne blagajne (Pipe Roll, Great Roll of the Pipes); slang lahka naloga
    colloquially put that in your pipe and smoke it! — dobro si zapomni!, figuratively pomiri se s tem
    to put s.o.'s pipe out — preprečiti komu kaj
    to clear one's pipe — odkašljati se, odhrkati se
    II [páip]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    piskati; žvižgati, zavijati (veter); brlizgati (ptič); hripavo govoriti, piskati pri govorjenju; slang jokati;
    2.
    transitive verb
    požvižgavati, piskati napev (na piščalko itd.)
    nautical z žvižgom sklicati posadko; napeljati cevi, speljati po ceveh (vodo, plin itd.); okrasiti (torto s sladkornim oblivom, obleko z našitki); botany grebenčiti (trte, sadike); slang to pipe (one's eyes) — jokati
    slang to pipe down — utihniti, izgubiti samozavest, postati skromnejši
    to pipe up — zapiskati na piščalko; zapeti, oglasiti se s piskajočim glasom

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См. также в других словарях:

  • pipe dream — pipe dreams also pipe dream N COUNT A pipe dream is a hope or plan that you have which you know will never really happen. You could waste your whole life on a pipe dream …   English dictionary

  • pipe dream — (n.) 1896; the sort of improbable fantasy one has while smoking opium; from PIPE (Cf. pipe) (n.) + DREAM (Cf. dream) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • pipe dream — A pipe dream is an unrealistic, impractical idea or scheme …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • pipe dream — ► NOUN ▪ an unattainable or fanciful hope or scheme. ORIGIN referring to a dream experienced when smoking an opium pipe …   English terms dictionary

  • pipe dream — pipe ,dream noun count something you wish for that can never really happen …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • pipe dream — pipe′ dream n. a fanciful or unrealistic notion, hope, or plan …   From formal English to slang

  • pipe dream — [n] fantasy air castle, airy hope, castle in the sky*, chimera, daydream, fantastic notion, fool’s paradise*, unreal hope, wishful thinking; concepts 20,529,689 …   New thesaurus

  • pipe dream — ☆ pipe dream n. [in allusion to hallucinations experienced by opium smokers] Informal a fantastic idea, vain hope or plan, etc …   English World dictionary

  • pipe dream — noun a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe • Syn: ↑dream • Hypernyms: ↑fantasy, ↑phantasy * * * n daydream, dream, delusion, fantasy, reverie, romance,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pipe dream — A pipe dream is a fantastic hope or plan that is generally regarded as being nearly impossible to achieve. It is implied that the smoker of the pipe is smoking a substance that alters their perceptions to make something fantastical seem… …   Wikipedia

  • Pipe Dream — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Pipe Dream – Lügen haben Klempnerbeine Originaltitel Pipe Dream …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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