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What are pipedreams?

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∙ 17y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A "pipedream" is a fantastic but vain hope. The phrase harkens back to times when opium dens were common in Europe, America, and other countries. Smoking opium through a pipe would often inspire fantastical and quite realistic-feeling dreams once the smoker of the opium pipe had passed out.

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