air castle

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Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags.

From Time Magazine Archive

He passes to-day in building an air castle for to-morrow, or in writing yesterday's elegy; and he would flyaway this hour, but that a cage, necessity, keeps him.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

While Platon was reading the letter Petka gazed dreamily out of the window and built, not an air castle, but a large grocery store, with showy windows.

From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee

But the walls of his air castle began to grow more solid.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell

All daydreaming builds this air castle; all ambition has this as its goal.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham