Meanings (ES + gloss)
forjar castillos en el aire • hacer castillos de naipes • hacer castillos en el aire • levantar castillos en el aire
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.
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.
Look you, Amanda, 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 h…
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