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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenAU
KieliKäännökset
espanjahacer castillos en el aire, forjar castillos en el aire, levantar castillos en el aire, hacer castillos de naipes
esperantokonstrui kastelojn en aero
hollantiluchtkastelen bouwen
italiafare castelli in aria
kreikkaαεροβατώ (aerovató)
portugalifazer castelos no ar
ranskatirer des plans sur la comète, bâtir des plans sur la comète, bâtir des châteaux en Espagne
saksaauf Sand bauen, Luftschlösser bauen
suomirakennella pilvilinnoja
venäjäстроить воздушные замки (stroit vozdušnyje zamki)
viroõhulosse ehitama

Määritelmät

Verbi

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To have any desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to be realized; to imagine visionary projects or schemes; to have an idle fancy or a pipe dream; to daydream.

Esimerkit

  • Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
  • You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
  • Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Luokat


(transitive, idiomatic) To have any desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to be realized; to imagine visionary projects or schemes; to have an idle fancy or a pipe dream; to daydream.

Political satire (1740): "Spain by Folly, Castles builds, and places them in Air."