dream up
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Verb
dream up (third-person singular simple present dreams up, present participle dreaming up, simple past and past participle dreamed up or dreamt up)
- To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal.
- 1996, Steven H. Gale, Encyclopedia of British Humorists, →ISBN:
- It's as if he were giving a performance of some character he's dreamed up, and his pale eyes wander in search of effect even in his apparently wildest moments.
- 1999, John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill, editors, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, →ISBN:
- I am not arguing that I can dream up any reality I like.
- 2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, →ISBN:
- Since he had no way of returning to his homeland, and since remembering it made him suffer, he dreamed up a homeland he'd never had, […]
- 2010, Christopher Nolan, Inception (motion picture), spoken by Fischer (Cillian Murphy):
- Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?
Translations
have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal
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