castles in the air

Thus they built themselves castles in the air for the future of the child that was to come.

The two friends remained alone to speak of the future and to build castles in the air.

He starts to dream and build castles in the air.

It is just the sort of capital for building castles in the air."

You are building castles in the air and your route map up to the year 2003 calls for 60 000 soldiers.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

I could not sleep, my fancy so rioted through its castles in the air.

Daydreams are building castles in the air, taking time out for a reverie.

Do not build castles in the air and fantasize without taking responsibility for your actions.

It seems as though building castles in the air and great utopias is a Russian specialty.

We do want to adopt a cost-effective, practical approach here, not build castles in the air.

There is a saying about building castles in the air: Once they are there, you have to build the foundations under them.

The Commission must put its communication on a statistically secure footing if we are not to continue building castles in the air.

Along with everybody else in the damage-control party, he'd been building castles in the air.

Plans, castles in the air, a lot of chaff.

We pass over all the castles in the air which the young ladies of the family had built, and which now fell to the ground.

Do you remember our castles in the air?"

Some of their schemes were castles in the air; some proved sturdy.

But I don't build castles in the air.

"Generals who build castles in the air commonly have them knocked down around their ears.

For ever building castles in the air.

He built his castles in the air.

Beat all about you at building castles in the air; you have more material and more reason.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.