The other answers are wrong. Mine is the correct one. Samuel Heatherstump was a villager outside of London where the king had one of his many castles. Samuel's job was to clean the waste from the royal chamber pot. He hated his job, hell wh...
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What is the origin and meaning of the phrase "Preaching to the choir"? ... "Pipe dream" arose as a comparison of someone's loopy plan or perception to the kind of fantastic vision experienced by opium addicts, who, once addicted to smoking the narcotic, were said to be "on the pipe." Opium smoking was not uncommon among...
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For about a year now, everyone has been talking about what a great one-day team we have. Many of our pundits predicted that we might even win the World Cup. The manner in which our team lost to Australia, well... winning the championship se...
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Dear Word Detective: What is the origin of the word "dash" or "dashboard," as in an automobile. -- ... "Pipe dream" arose as a comparison of someone's loopy plan or perception to the kind of fantastic vision experienced by opium addicts, who, once addicted to smoking the narcotic, were said to be "on the pipe." Opium smoking...
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Use pipe dream in a Sentence ... See web results for pipe dream ... See images of pipe dream...
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/pipe+dream
dictionary.reference.com/browse/pipe+dream
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www.pipedreamcycles.com/
www.pipedreamcycles.com/
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Softbank founder Masayoshi Son lost $75 billion in the dotcom crash. His new master plan: superfast, supercheap DSL for the masses. ... "My dream is big, OK?" ... Coming from a man who used to boast of having a 300-year business plan, that's saying a lot. But Masayoshi Son isn't exaggerating. His latest master plan...
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www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pipedream.html
www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pipedream.html
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Meaning An unrealistic hope or fantasy. Origin The allusion is to the dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes. The early references to the phrase all originate from in or around Chicago. The earliest I have found is from The Chicago Da...
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Pipe Dreams: The origin of the "bombing Afghanistan for oil pipelines" theory (Lefties Proved Liars); Slate ^ | December 6, 2001 | Seth Stevenson ; ... tangled web; Pipe Dreams; The origin of the "bombing-Afghanistan-for-oil-pipelines" theory. By Seth Stevenson; Posted Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 11:32 AM PT;
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