never-never land
Example Sentences
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“The Punch Bowl,” made in late 1944, when Germany was on its knees, portrayed a “good old German never-never land of unspoiled cobblestone streets.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
"It laid bare how incompatible it was to have intelligence services operating in a secret constitutional never-never land and allowed them to become publicly accountable."
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2023
“But until the bulldozers arrive and the leases are terminated and farmers start to go away, it’s not done. It will be in that never-never land of planning.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2017
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Bay Area is a culinary never-never land, a place where aspiring apiarists hire beekeeping coaches, and even 7-year-olds can discuss the virtues of Himalayan salt.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2014
Immediately, the breeze took them straight out, as though Peter Pan had donned them to fly across our yard toward never-never land across the Bay.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
